On the Time She and Denzel Washington Went “At It”
For a 2016 episode of Gray’s Anatomy titled “The Sound of Silence,” Denzel Washington got here in to direct. Nonetheless, Pompeo recommended their time working collectively wasn’t all easy.
“Working with Denzel was superb,” she stated on a 2021 episode of her podcast Inform Me With Ellen Pompeo. “He went nuts on me. It is a good Denzel story.”
The difficulty appeared to stem from Pompeo improvising a line throughout a scene with a castmate.
“That wasn’t within the dialogue, and Denzel went HAM on my ass,” she continued. “He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t you inform him what to do.'”
Nonetheless, Pompeo did not recognize the Oscar winner’s response.
“I used to be like, ‘Hear, motherf–ker,'” she added. “‘That is my present. That is my set. Who’re you telling? You barely know the place the toilet is.'”
And whereas Pompeo insisted she has “the utmost respect” for Washington as an actor and director, she admitted they “went at it.”
“We didn’t get via it and not using a battle,” she famous, “however that’s actors for you: Passionate and fiery and that’s the place you get the magic and that’s the place you get the great things. So, it was a tremendous expertise. It actually was.”
For his half, Washington has implied he would not give the second a lot thought.
“No, no,” the Keep in mind the Titans star advised Selection in 2022, insisting he would not keep in mind the incident earlier than including, “But it surely’s all good.”
