Shonda Rhimes responds to the backlash 'Grey's Anatomy' star Ellen Pompeo faced for yelling at Denzel Washington on set: 'Ellen's going to be Ellen'
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- Shonda Rhimes responded to a current "Gray's Anatomy" controversy in an interview with Selection.
- She hadn't been conscious of backlash Ellen Pompeo received after saying she yelled at Denzel Washington.
- Rhimes handed full artistic management to Krista Vernoff in season 14.
In a current interview with Variety, "Gray's Anatomy" creator and former showrunner Shonda Rhimes responded to the backlash Ellen Pompeo has confronted in current weeks for admitting she fought with Denzel Washington in 2015, whereas he was on set directing a season 12 episode of the hit medical drama.
When Pompeo's former costar Patrick Dempsey was a visitor on her podcast "Inform Me With Ellen Pompeo," the actor recalled some harsh phrases she had for Washington when he directed "The Sound Of Silence," which aired in February 2016.
Pompeo remembered an intense struggle she had with the "Coaching Day" star when she modified a line of dialogue within the script. It was throughout a scene after an epileptic affected person broke the jaw of her character, fictional physician Meredith Gray.
In line with Pompeo, the visitor actor enjoying the epileptic affected person "made this selection to talk very softly" and wasn't taking a look at her within the eye, so she yelled at him to take a look at her when he apologized. "And that wasn't within the dialogue," she recalled.
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"Denzel went ham on my ass. He was like, 'I'm the director. Don't you inform him what to do," Pompeo recalled on the podcast. However she had a retort for the "Coaching Day" star. "And I used to be like, 'pay attention motherfucker, that is my present. That is my set. Who're you telling? You barely know the place the toilet is.'"
In line with Selection, Rhimes seemed "mystified" when the drama was defined to her (she's been busy writing the "Bridgerton" prequel), and replied, "Oh, the episode like years in the past?"
When requested by Selection if she felt relieved that "Grey's Anatomy" on-set drama wasn't a part of her day anymore, Rhimes stated, "The aid and the posh that I've is that I don't actually take note of Twitter or Instagram - or articles."
"However I additionally really feel like Ellen's going to be Ellen," she added.
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Rhimes is not concerned in storytelling selections on "Gray's Anatomy."
"I've handed off all of the reins solely," she informed Selection. Krista Vernoff, who was a author on the present from seasons one by means of seven, took over as showrunner in season 14.
"Gray's Anatomy" season 18 airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
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