BC's hit 'Grey's Anatomy' is definitely not a textbook medical show
By MELANIE McFARLAND
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER TV CRITIC
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| Credit: Steve Shelton/Special to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer | ||
| Ellen Pompeo who plays Meredith Grey, is interviewed by local media after shooting a scene on the ferry. Horton, who's also co-executive producer, hopes to make the series capture Seattle more realistically. | ||
Wouldn't you know it -- only minutes after Meredith Grey boarded the Bainbridge Island ferry, she snagged a boy's affections. Neville, perhaps the vessel's most popular guy, smiles at Ellen Pompeo, the actress who portrays Grey in ABC's hit medical drama, "Grey's Anatomy." Then he immediately invites her to check out his abs.
"Someone wants to be an actor!" Pompeo says with a laugh, and then in her sweetest coo says, "What a cute boy. Are you sure you're not a pig? Because you look like a ham sandwich."
A weird pickup line, but it works. Neville, a bomb-sniffing dog for the Washington State Patrol, begins wriggling more passionately, hoping for a belly rub. But Pompeo declines with a sigh. "I can't touch him. I'm allergic, I'll get hives. Which would be bad for the shot."
Evidently the woman has more sense than the character she portrays. Lying down with a dog of the two-legged variety, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), is what got poor Meredith in trouble last spring.
Not that audiences minded her mistake. Nowadays when people approach her on the street, she said, "Everybody wants to know what it's like to kiss Patrick Dempsey."
Naturally we had to ask. "You know, it's absolutely terrible, and I'm sick of it," she said with a playful grin. "And I'm sure his wife is sick of hearing me explain it."
