Ellen Pompeo reveals the torments of Grey’s Anatomy, from the pairing equality with Patrick Dempsey to a “nightmare” sex scene

After 19 seasons in the most long -lasting early evening hospital drama on TV, Ellen Pompeo He temporarily abandoned the series for a prestigious role in the new dramatic miniseries by Hulu, Good American Family. “There is enormous pressure on me,” he said previously to Vanity Fair. “Why should someone (including me) believe that I can do something different from interpreting Meredith Gray?”.

To try to relaunch his image, Pompeo participated in the podcast of Alex Cooper Call Her Daddy To talk about his almost twenty years in Grey’s Anatomya series that is known for its dramas both on the screen and (like VF He has amply reported) behind the scenes.

Not all the stories told in the success series by ABC are the same, as Pompeo was able to see in person in the scene of the unpleasant adventure of a night of his character with George O’Malley, the character played by TR KNIGHT. “Tr and I are excellent friends,” Pompeo said to Cooper during the March 19th episode, “and we had to make a love scene … we were crying both”.

The close encounter that took place in the second season was “absolutely uncomfortable and embarrassing,” said Pompeo. “He didn’t want to do it. I didn’t want to do it. When we shot the scene, it was terrible, and then the issuer said there were too many kidney strokes. ” After receiving the feedback of the production house on the episode, Pompeo and Knight had to return under the sheets. “Already having to do it once it was the worst of the nightmares, but we also had to turn that stuff again,” said the actress. “We had to turn it back and do it twice.”

Even today, “I never looked at that scene,” said Pompeo, who of Grey’s Anatomy It is also an executive producer. “I don’t know how it was shot, managed or mounted, but I have been in tears throughout the scene, and I mean real tears.”

Apparently, in short, Pompeo has widely earned his compensation of $ 575,000 per episode for the series. But as Cooper told Cooper, the actress fought to achieve equal pay with Patrick Dempseyhis co-protagonist as well as the original object of his romantic attention on the screen. “He had done more or less 13 pilot before me. For me, however, it was the first pilot episode ever, “said Pompeo talking about their debut in the series, which debuted in 2005.« In those days (I don’t know if they still do it or not) you had a price, and for each pilot television you did, you received your listing, which was what it was. So if one did 13 pilot television … and there is nothing staff against him, but I say in general … only a man can have his credit 13 pilot television did not go through and a price that continues to climb, I say good? But in all frankness, its listing was what it was ».

Pompeo added: «At the time he was a star bigger than me. Nobody knew who I was. Everyone knew who he was. So in fact he deserved that money. I’m not saying he didn’t deserve them. It is only that, being the one that gives its name to the series, I deserved the same compensation too. And then it was more difficult to get it ».

Almost three years after Dempsey’s shocking scene from the series in 2015, Pompeo signed an agreement that officially made him the most paid actress of a dramatic television series, gaining about 20 million dollars a year. Before asking for this compensation, Pompeo spoke with the creator of the series Shonda Rhimes: “Having grown up in a mafia culture, I always want to bring compared to the people who deserve respect,” he said. Rhimes’s answer, according to Pompey? “Well, nobody will give you. You have to ask for it ».

In view of the negotiations, Pompeo said he knew “exactly how much” Grey’s Anatomy same frustrating the ABC. “It’s my face, it’s my voice. I have been working a lot for 20 years to promote the series all over the world, “he underlined. “I am the Disney princess of that franchise, so I have a series of data that prove it, I know that the series has generated Tot money. I certainly deserve a percentage ».

Having asserted has also allowed Pompeo to “fight for other women,” he explained. «If you know you are taking Tot and that all the other women are well below you, you can’t just be fine. You really have the responsibility of verifying how much all the others earn and using your power to say: “Listen, I appreciate what I have. It is fantastic. But it is necessary that this thing has noticed, and I really think that all women deserve an increase” ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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