Move over McDreamy, McSteamy is again! After making a wonder appearance during the Thursday, April 1, episode of Grey’s Anatomy, Eric Dane published behind-the-scenes secrets of his reunions with Ellen Pompeo and Chyler Leigh.
As Pompeo’s Meredith Grey remained on a ventilator throughout her combat with coronavirus on season 17 of the medical drama, she’s been visited by way of her fallen family and pals. After Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) stopped by, Meredith’s sister Lexie Grey (Leigh) and Mark Sloan (Dane) paid her a visit. During Thursday’s episode, the former onscreen couple, who died after a aircraft crash within the season 8 finale in 2012, helped Meredith get up.
“Mark Sloan and Lexie Grey are embedded within the DNA of that show, and also actually, Lexie and Meredith share the same DNA,” Dane, 48, told Deadline after Thursday’s episode aired. “So, I think there’s a connectivity there and reminding her that, long past but no longer forgotten, we’re all the time round if you need us, and it’s too early for you to stay at the beach.”
Dane first seemed on Grey’s Anatomy right through season 2 in 2006. After habitual all over the rest of the season, he was promoted to a series common all over season 3. The actor remained on the series until the season 9 premiere when Sloan died following injuries he sustained within the crash.
“At its core, it’s just a perfect display. People connect with the characters on that display. It perceived to have discovered a whole new technology of viewership,” Dane informed Deadline about Grey’s Anatomy’s continued success. “Shows normally will grow up with a technology, an target audience, and eventually that target audience will both outgrow that show or move onto one thing else. But with Grey’s, there’s all the time been an alchemy in that cast, a dynamic, a chemistry which helps to keep other folks showing up. The writing’s just right. Krista [Vernoff], Shonda [Rhimes], Betsy [Beers] and now Debbie Allen’s exec generating the display. They’re so excellent at understanding the tone of that display and finding characters that individuals will invest in, and what that translates to is season 17.”
While Dane filmed with Pompeo in person, Leigh, who was filming Supergirl in Canada, appeared via a green screen for Thursday’s episode.
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“Chyler used to be in Vancouver. So, we had to paintings some magic,” the Euphoria superstar stated. “Chyler could get here but then she couldn’t get again to Canada. There used to be some inexperienced display. There was a lot of me and Ellen. And Ellen an eye fixed line. … [But] 2,000 miles of distance between us isn't going to [take away] the chemistry that happens onscreen between [me and Chyler]. I know who I’m speaking to, she knows who she’s talking to. And that interprets.”
Grey’s Anatomy airs on ABC Thursdays at Nine p.m. ET. Scroll through for the biggest takeaways from Dane’s Q&A:
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