Shonda Rhimes Discusses Callie/Hahn at TCA
Last week, during the Television Critics Association, Shonda Rhimes dished out some new information about the upcoming lesbian storyline in Grey’s Anatomy. Love it or hate it, it’s undoubtedly coming, and AfterEllen got the scoop on what’s to come next season for the lovely ladies.
Rhimes told reporters that they have a very “interesting, wonderful, funny way of laying out the story of Callie and Erica.” Which (thankfully) doesn’t seem to point in any way toward a pregnancy of any kind. Rhimes stated that the storyline would not be “typical.”
It also looks like Rhimes and the Grey’s Anatomy writers are interested in delving into the experience of figuring out that you’re into women when you’re at a later point in life, rather than when you’re a teenager for example.
Rhimes also revealed that they hadn’t originally planned the storyline, it had simply developed, and as it turns out, the Grey’s Anatomy crew is really excited about it. She pointed to the relationship between Sara Ramirez and Brooke Smith as an inspirational point toward the emergence of this storyline.
Specifically, she stated, “She and Erica together — Callie and Erica together — seemed to have a lot of interesting chemistry and dynamic. And we really did start them out as being friends, and it felt like there was something more there — the same kind of chemistry that I saw between, say, Christina and Burke, before Christina and Burke got together, [so] that I wanted to play it and see what happened with it.”
As we all know, Shonda Rhimes detests spoilers of any sort, so she wasn’t very forthcoming with the details of what’s to come exactly, though she did reveal that at the start of the new season they’d be picking up with Callie questioning what it means to kiss a girl and how she feels about it.
When asked about a potential pregnancy storyline, Rhimes was quick to assure us “that is not going to happen.”
Via | AfterEllen
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POSTED IN: Brooke Smith, Sara Ramirez, Season 5, Shonda Rhimes, Spoilers
4 opinions for Shonda Rhimes Discusses Callie/Hahn at TCA
Michelle
Jul 23, 2008 at 9:04 am
im excited, cant wait to see how their storyline plays out next season.
Michelle
Jul 23, 2008 at 9:32 am
the big ‘coming out’ moment is what im dying to see.
~George will probably blame himself or something, Sloan will be defending them,
~ALex will be making jokes about it (like when callie and george got married he was like ” dude your Callie O’Malley) something like that will come from alex.
~I see christina being weirded out seeing tht her roommate is with someone she admires/fears/dislikes/likes i mean she told callie not to bring hahn over the house anymore.
~Maybe hahn and callie will move into the archfield eventually or something
~I see callies dad kicking georges ass at some point in season 5.
I have an overactive imagination i wish i worked behind the scenes at greys even as the person who changes the tires on the trailers it wouldnt matter.
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