Ellen Pompeo on Meredith Grey
An article in the Buffalo News has some interesting quotes from Ellen Pompeo on the subject of her on-screen persona: Meredith Grey, and on her job as an actress on the show.
“It’s done very much on purpose,” says Pompeo of Meredith’s quirks and flaws, “to create a female lead character who is very flawed. Shonda (Rhimes, the series’ creator and co-executive producer) feels like she’s diving into new waters there. You know, I don’t really have much of a say. I just show up and say my lines. There’s no collaboration on the characters and the writing. This is a 9-to-5 job. I have to show up and say what they write.
“Some of the individual scenes I struggle with, and that’s OK, because if it’s a struggle, I’m learning. My biggest fear about doing a series television show is that I would be bored. But at the same time, there are episodes where I struggle with the choices that Meredith makes. So something I say a lot is, “Why hasn’t she learned this lesson? Why hasn’t she learned any lesson? Why does she keep making these stupid mistakes?’
“She’s smart enough to make it through medical school, but she can’t figure out that she shouldn’t be sleeping with strangers.”
(source)
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2 opinions for Ellen Pompeo on Meredith Grey
april(juju bean)
May 15, 2006 at 1:21 pm
if she wasn’t flawed the show would probably get pretty boring considering each episode revolvig around her life and mistakes.
Lindy
Oct 3, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I know that is the funny part of the series Meredeth struggles with work and GUYS!!
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