Ellen Pompeo Reveals Why She Really Hasn’t Left 'Grey’s Anatomy'

Nearly three years after Ellen Pompeo took a step back from her leading role in Grey’s Anatomy, she revealed the reason why hasn’t completely left the medical series. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'll have you know, I boxed to that song before
the show this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
What a sight for whoever got to witness that?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Kirk Kirk, I got to see it my boxing helper Kirk.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hello, did you go to the beat of the song?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
No? You know Kirk from Dog Pound? Tanya, Oh, yes,
I do. Came in his mohawk and we punched together.
So it's not like a choreograph. It's not like it's no, no,
you know, it's I can really do early because it's
twenty minutes. It's twenty I can only do it for
twenty minutes boxing. I cannot get the long So you
can actually cram that in before you go early in

(00:37):
the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, yeah, I've tried it, and it's too hard for me.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's too hard for me too.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, so it's hard for everybody.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
No, Tanya, is a training report. Now what are you
looking at?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
So, Ellen Pompeo's decades long run at Gracelawn Memorial has
been a whirlwind, and even though she took a step
back from the full time role as Meredith Gray in
season nineteen, she's revealing why she isn't ready to fully
retire her scrubs she said that would make no sense
emotionally or financially. The show was streamed more than a
billion times in twenty twenty four, and she also said

(01:09):
walking away from Grey's Anatomy would be a disservice to
their twenty years of hard work. To me, it doesn't
make any sense that everybody gets to profit off my
hard work. And emotionally the show means a lot to people.
I want to have an attitude of gratitude towards the show.
So this interview with Ellen Pompeo has been like picked
up and ripped up, and like there was a lot

(01:29):
of controversy because I feel like Ellen Pompeo talks a
lot about finances and the financial She got a huge
salary for the show, and I think a lot of
people because she's a woman coming out and talking about
all that, she gets ripped down a lot from it.
And I think it's awesome, And I love Ellen Pompeo
for like championing this and kind of being a woman

(01:50):
who stands up for herself and asks for what she
wants and what she thinks she deserves. But also there's
this thing in the acting world where like a lot
of people feel like they they want to do like
more indie things, and you don't want to be pigeonholed
into one role like to me, she's gonna be Meredith
Gray forever. And a lot of actors like want to

(02:12):
have more ambiguity and be seen in like this higher regard.
And so I just think it's cool that Ellen is
marching to the beaut of her own drums. She's like,
I've got a good thing going.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Why would I be?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think renewed for season twenty two? Yeah, hey, the
host of American Idol twenty three years. You're just like
helt to the choir. Yeah, I got a good thing going.
I know, Like I don't need to change it up
and host a puppet show, right, Like, I'm good. It's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Longest running medical drama and TV history.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's amazing to have shows that run that long. That's
that Law and Order right. Also, another one, isn't Survivor
up there? Survivor's up there? For sure.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm still watching American Idol.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Like you said, they go a wheel of fortune. That's
still on the wheel. Wow, I mean these legacy shows,
why not? I love that she said that. Good for her. Yeah,
I have to watch season twenty two of Gray's An Adams.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Right, let's just hop back in. Yeah, you don't have
to catch up a little. That's fine. Why I watched
when's the last season you watched?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah? I remember it was like Katherine Heigel was on it,
twenty five, twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It was before the twins, so I was like, twenty seventeen, okay,
not bad, but you could jump right back into that time.