Grey’s Anatomy veteran Kate Walsh is optimistic that the long-running ABC medical drama will proceed after Ellen Pompeo leaves the present in February.
After portraying Dr. Meredith Grey for almost twenty years, Pompeo is bidding Grey’s farewell in early 2023, which has many followers questioning if Season 19 can be its swan tune. After all, how can the present proceed with out the titular character exhibiting up at Grey Sloan Memorial each episode?
But Walsh, who made her return as Dr. Addison Montgomery in Episode 3 of this season, thinks this present crop of characters has endurance. “The storylines are so strong… The new interns this season, I love that they’re all fallible and messed up, and so that makes it, I think, a lot more interesting, ” she informed People.
“Interns and attendings, you have OGs come back like me, and that’s been really fun, and also just the writing has never been stronger on the show,” she added.
Pompeo just lately stopped by The Drew Barrymore Show and defined why she felt now was the proper time to go away the long-running drama, which she additionally co-executive produces. “I feel super happy — but, listen, the show has been incredible to me. I’ve loved a lot of the experience, but I gotta mix it up a little bit. I’m 53, my brain is like scrambled eggs. I gotta do something new… you can’t do The New York Times crossword puzzle every single day.”
As for Walsh, after debuting as Derek Shepherd’s (Patrick Dempsey) estranged spouse Addison within the first season of Grey’s in 2004, she moved to her personal spinoff, Private Practice, in 2007. (Fans of Private Practice can be happy to know that there have been latest rumors of a revival of the medical drama.)
Pompeo will subsequent star in a still-untitled Hulu restricted sequence based mostly on the film Orphan, “inspired by the true story of Ukranian-born Natalia Grace and her US adoptive parents who claimed that she was an adult ‘sociopath’ pretending to be a child.”
Grey’s Anatomy, Season 19, Thursdays, 9/8c, ABC