Jesse Williams is getting to work on his next project.
11.08.2022 - 02:11 / usmagazine.com
Backing his boss! Jesse Williams has heard the news that his former costar Ellen Pompeo is scaling back her role in season 19 of Grey’s Anatomy — and he thinks Dr. Meredith Grey has scrubbed in enough.
“That woman has worked so hard all year, every year for 20 years for that franchise,” Williams, 41, told E! News’ Daily Pop in an interview that was published on Wednesday, August 10. “Whatever time she takes off is well-earned, and I’m sure they have a master plan.”
While Pompeo, 52, will continue to executive produce and direct during the upcoming season of the ABC series, TVLine reported earlier this month that she will only “physically appear” on screen for eight out of the expected 20 to 24 episodes.
The news comes a few months after the Boston native made headlines for saying she’d been “trying to focus on convincing everybody [Grey’s] should end” sooner rather than later.
“I feel like I’m the super naive one who keeps saying, ‘But what’s the story going to be, what story are we going to tell?’ Everyone’s like, ‘Who cares, Ellen? It makes a gazillion dollars,’” she said during a December 2021 interview with Insider.
In May, Pompeo hinted that instead of trying to end the show, she was trying to figure out how Grey’s could survive without her.
“Shonda Rhimes and I, I think — we’ll see, we’ll see,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the time about her future on the series. “Trying to reinvent the show and continually trying to reinvent the show is the challenge at this point.”
Williams, who portrayed Dr. Jackson Avery on the medical drama from 2009 to 2021, may have an idea of how that could happen. While he officially exited the show after season 17, the Chicago native has routinely returned to Grey Sloan Memorial for guest
Jesse Williams is getting to work on his next project.
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"Take Me Out" is coming back to Broadway with "Modern Family" actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and former "Grey's Anatomy" star Jesse Williams both reprising their roles. The Tony award-winning play written by Richard Greenberg, directed by Scott Ellis and produced by Barry and Fran Weissler will be playing for 14 weeks at the Schoenfeld Theatre, beginning on October 27. The play ran for a limited run this past spring and received four Tony nominations.The play is about Darren Lemming, a fictional baseball professional baseball player played by Williams who comes out as gay.
Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit revival will re-take the field October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre for 14 weeks, it was revealed today.
Take Me Out is going for another run!
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Take Me Out,” the Tony Award winning best revival of a play, will make a rare return engagement on Broadway after taking its final curtain call in June.The comedic drama about a star baseball player who comes out as gay and the impact that has on the team’s clubhouse, nabbed four Tonys, including a best featured actor in a play prize for Jesse Tyler Ferguson. It also generated a lot of buzz for its ample on-stage nudity (that aspect led the show’s producers to require patrons to lock their phones in Yondr pouches to prevent photos from leaking online).Ferguson will return for the production, as will Jesse Williams, the “Grey’s Anatomy” star who won raves for his lead performance. “Take Me Out” will open its doors on Thursday, October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.
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Jesse Williams is reacting to Ellen Pompeo‘s reduced role in the upcoming season of Grey’s Anatomy.
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Stepping out from behind the stethoscope. Ellen Pompeo will star in and executive produce a new limited series for Hulu, marking her first significant role since landing Grey’s Anatomy in 2005.
Grey’s Anatomy. The has just signed on to a limited series at Hulu, but that means she won’t be as available for the next season of the hit medical drama.
Ellen Pompeo is scaling back on her role after landing a new project. ET has learned that the 52-year-old actress will continue her role as the iconic Meredith Grey on season 19 of the medical drama in a limited capacity, appearing on eight episodes of the upcoming season.Pompeo will continue as an executive producer for season 19, which will see a new crop of interns join the fray.
Ellen Pompeo is splitting her time between “Grey’s Anatomy” and other duties.
according to Deadline. She will only appear in eight episodes of the upcoming season.
EXCLUSIVE: In the Season 18 finale of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith made a decision not to move to Minnesota. While Meredith is staying at Grey Sloan Memorial as an interim Chief of Surgery, we will see less of her next season. Pompeo will appear in eight episodes of the upcoming 19th season, which is now starting production. She will continue to narrate every episode and to serve as an executive producer on the hugely popular medical drama, which remains ABC’s top scripted series.