Season 3 : On the set of Greys Anatomy

Reporters invited to the Grey´s Anatomy set: interviews

• Will Meredith and Dr. McDreamy become a couple?
  "I don't know. You'll have to asked Shonda," said waifish series star Ellen Pompeo, who added that she really isn't interested in having the season's story arc laid out for her.
  
  I like to stay really present and focus on what's in front of me. I have so much work to do so I can't think about future episodes because I have focus on the one I'm working on. If there is anything major, Shonda will tell me."
  Patrick Dempsey didn't cough up any storyline secrets while chatting in the doctors changing room. But Dr. McDreamy did, at least, offer a plot prognosis that he would be happy with.
  
  "Oh, I have no idea who he is going to pick, but I think he'll probably end up with Meredith," he said. "Or maybe he should have someone completely new, add a third one."
  
  Whatever the outcome, Dempsey hopes it will happen soon.
  "I think we have to make a decision and move forward and I think that's what they are going to do. But we really don't get a lot of say," said Dempsey.
  
  "I think he should move on and explore what they do now, as oppose to following her around and looking at her longingly and saying, 'What are you doing.' I think it castrates him too much and I think he needs to get his masculinity back."
  Dempsey, who describes the show as a "soap opera," did caution that the series has to mindful of not going too far.
  
  "People like the fantasy and the storylines but, hopefully, they don't take it too far out that's too absurd."
  
  Dempsey isn't the only one who has an opinion on how things should play out. Pompeo -- who has been in Europe recently promoting the series -- said the public isn't afraid to weigh in on the Meredith/McDreamy issue.
  
  "All the girls have their favourite guys, that's mainly what it is," she said, adding that the numbers are split between McDreamy and veterinarian Finn (Chris O'Donnell).
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• Other cast members wandering through the set and taking time to talk to us included Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Ellen Pompeo, Justin Chambers, Katherine Heigl, T.R. Knight and James Pickens, Jr.
  
  My favorite conversation was between Oh and Pompeo, and began when a reporter asked about a rumor she’d heard that Isaiah Washington was leaving the show (don’t pass out, fans, no one uncovered any truth to the rumor).
  
  Oh shrieked and turned to the nearby Pompeo to ask if she’d heard this rumor. Pompeo hadn’t but she gamely teased her co-star, whose character is of course dating Washington’s character.
  
  “What’s Cristina Yang going to do?” she playfully asked. “Meredith could give her a few pointers on how to move on. We’ll have to go to a bar, have a drink, and I’ll tell you the inappropriate things to do when drunk!”
  
  Ellen Pompeo was asked the hardest thing about playing a doctor. “Surgery scenes can be kinda gross,” she allowed. “It smells. They use animal parts [to depict human organs].”
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• Meanwhile, Dr. McDreamy, aka Patrick Dempsey, says his struggle this season is to make sure Dr. Shepherd isn’t “castrated” by the two women in his life — his wife Addison and Meredith. Fans want him to choose Meredith, played by Ellen Pompeo, but Dempsey says he doesn’t know whose bed he’ll wind up in.
  
  By the way, reed-like Pompeo isn’t fazed by getting to have hot sex in the operating room with the doc that fans swoon over.
  
  “Patrick is like my brother,” she said. “It’s really no big deal.”
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• Waif-like Ellen Pompeo (Meredith) led a group of reporters through the O.R., pointing out the icky fake cadaver on the operating table. She talked about a recent trip to Italy to promote the show, which is taking off in Europe. Pompeo described the reception the cast got there as "rock-star amazing. We were really overwhelmed."Asked about a rumour that Isiah Washington (Preston Burke) was leaving the show, Pompeo wailed, "Noooo!" and consulted girlfriend-like with Ottawa-raised actress Sandra Oh (Christine Yang), who was off in her own press scrum a few feet to the left.
  "I have no idea," said Oh, whose character is romantically linked to Washington's.
  "I'll have to give you a few pointers about how to move on," kidded Pompeo.

• This must be the party line. Ellen Pompeo, the nominal female lead as Meredith Grey, chimed in, "To put us against a great show like CSI must mean we're just as grea
  With future plot lines off the table, the interview degenerated into exchanges such as this:
  Critic: "Have you done anything special since the show became a hit?"
  Pompeo: "I bought a house."
  Critic: "Why?"
  Pompeo: "Because I need a place to live."
  Another perk of success for Pompeo was a four-week trip to Europe this summer on the company dime to promote the series. While in Monaco, she got to meet Prince Albert. What was he like?
  "He was charming, as princes are supposed to be."
  (You couldn't make this stuff up.).