Giving the fans what they want! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be coming back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital following their individual exits from Grey’s Anatomy.
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Jesse Williams, 40, is revealing his fears about his Broadway debut in Take Me Out. The actor has to strip down naked on stage in the show and admitted it “terrified” him to do so, in a new interview with Page Six.
“I was terrified but then I noted that that was what I asked God for,” he told the outlet. “I asked to be terrified. I asked to do something that was scary and challenging and made me earn it and made me feel alive and not comfortable.”
Jesse, who stars as Darren Lemming, a baseball player who recently came out as gay, in the revival of the 2002 play, announced he was leaving his role as Dr. Jackson Avery in Grey’s Anatomy after 12 seasons in May 2021. Since then, he’s taken on his new role on stage with gratitude despite being “a little nervous” before starting the production.
Related Gallery“Honestly, I just make that excitement. I don’t let it settle. I know it’s going to be fine. I just have to believe that and lean forward,” he further explained about his feelings. “Having said that, I’m incredibly humble about the whole thing. I have no business being here. I’ve never done this before.”
“I’ve never done a three-act play before in my life,” he added. “I just have respect and gratitude for the opportunity to try something on this level. It’s wild to me.”
In addition to facing his fears, Jesse admitted that his experience as a Philadelphia public school teacher, which he did for six years before he started acting, has helped him in his new on-stage acting career. “They’re very similar,” he said. “You have to hold the attention of a group of people that don’t necessarily want to be there and keep them engaged and stimulated. [It’s a] very similar skill set.”
Jesse is also taking his new “challenge” to
Giving the fans what they want! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be coming back to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital following their individual exits from Grey’s Anatomy.
Jackson and April are checking back into “Grey’s Anatomy”.
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew will be returning to the ABC medical drama for a special guest appearance on the season 18 finale airing May 26, ET can confirm. This marks the first time Williams and Drew will be back on in more than a year when they last appeared.While details regarding their return is being kept close to the vest, the duo's united front can only lead to speculation that Jackson and April's reappearance will serve as an update of sorts for viewers.Drew returned for an episode last season to help Williams wrap up his storyline in a satisfying way as he left the show after 12 seasons. Back in February, Williams was open to the idea of returning to “I’d consider it,” he said while promoting his Broadway debut in the revival of .
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are coming back to Grey’s Anatomy!
Japril fans, this one is for you! Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are returning to “Grey’s Anatomy” to reprise their roles as Jackson Avery and April Kepner for the Season 18 finale, TheWrap confirms. The episode will air on May 26. We last saw Japril together during Season 17, when Williams departed the series after 12 years.
Kate Aurthur editorThe once-and-future “Grey’s Anatomy” super couple of Jackson and April — played by Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew — are set to appear on the finale of the medical drama’s 18th season on May 26, Variety has confirmed.Williams left “Grey’s Anatomy” last season, having played Jackson since the show’s sixth season. Drew, who’d departed the show in 2018, returned for a guest appearance in May 2021 to send Jackson off to his new life in Boston, where he was taking over his family’s foundation.
Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are coming back to Grey’s Anatomy!
EXCLUSIVE: Japril will be back on Grey’s Anatomy. Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew are set to reprise their roles as Jackson and April in the Season 18 finale of the ABC medical drama, which airs May 26.
Ellen Pompeo is a supportive of her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jesse Williams – but she can’t quite see everything he does.
An interesting situation. Ellen Pompeo and Debbie Allen, Grey’s Anatomy mainstays, were eager to support former costar Jesse Williams’ Broadway debut — except they had one concern.
For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange’s brilliant work isn’t even just a play, but rather a series of monologues that also incorporate music and dance.The show is a modern-seeming musical of sorts, and it’s impressive that it still feels fresh and timely, as it was originally performed in New York in 1976. The title features seven women who have all faced adversity due to sexism and racism, and while everyone should see it, the event is not running very long, just for 20 weeks.A post shared by for colored girls – Broadway (@forcoloredgirlsbroadway) LGBTQ audiences have a lot of reasons to go see Take Me Out.
NEW YORK -- Earlier this month, Jesse Tyler Ferguson got a private tour of hallowed ground — Yankee Stadium. He and the cast of the Broadway revival of the baseball-themed “Take Me Out” got to walk on the grass and soak in the silent stands.“I wasn’t expecting to be as moved as I was,” says the “Modern Family” and Broadway star.
Jesse Williams will now be paying his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, a reduced amount in child support. According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the actor’s monthly support payments have been “temporarily modified” to $6,413. Before the recent filing, the 40-year-old was apparently paying his ex $40,000 a month in child support for their daughter Sadie, 8, and son Maceo, 6.
Jesse Williams had a big legal victory this week. A court ruled that the 40-year-old actor would no longer have to pay his ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, $40,000 a month in child support payments due to changes in his finances. Instead, Williams will now give Drake-Lee $6,413 a month, and can pay half on the first of the month, and the other half on the 15th. This ruling will commence on April 15, and will continue until further court order.Last month, Williams asked the courts in Los Angeles to reduce his child support payments, citing that he now makes «far less» than he did when he was on .«I am requesting the Court reduce the child support to a reasonable amount I can afford given the significant reduction in my income and the now fluctuating nature of my income,» Williams, who is starring in the Broadway play , said in his declaration to the court at the time.The actor noted that he is currently earning $1,668 per week for his work on Broadway — a far cry from the $6.2 million he made for his work on , not to mention the $183,000 in residuals he also took home., Williams said, was the primary source of income for his family throughout his marriage and for him, post-separation. «I appeared on the television show , which was the primary source of income for our family throughout the marriage and for me, post-separation.
Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.
Jesse Williams is celebrating the opening night of his Broadway show!
Michael Appler Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson celebrated the Broadway opening for “Take Me Out” on Monday evening in New York at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.A revival of the 2003 Tony-winning best play, headlined by Williams, Ferguson and Patrick J. Adams, “Take Me Out” is the third of 19 new shows that will open this month, continuing the march of star-driven offerings in Broadway’s first regular season since its return after the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
Lots of celebs stepped out out to check out the opening night performance of the Broadway play Take Me Out!
If the last week in our entertainments has shown us anything, it’s that even the most ordered, traditional of ceremonies can be disrupted by an unkind explosion of id, with ramifications splashing like crocodile tears on even the most unexpected of our heroes. Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play that charts the ramifications when a star baseball player comes out as gay, opens on Broadway tonight in a revival that has the perfect timing of a triple play.