All through Gray’s Anatomy’s 21-season run, it has seen many actors come and go. The primary half of Season 21 marked a severe forged change, as each Jake Borelli’s Levi Schmitt and Midori Francis’ Mika Yasuda left Gray Sloan Memorial. Schmitt accepted a job provide elsewhere, whereas Yasuda couldn’t work within the hospital the place her sister died. In the meantime, the present introduced again Jason George’s Ben Warren following Station 19’s cancellation, and the actor shared how filming has been following the double departure.
Firstly of Season 21, Ben got here again to Gray Sloan to proceed his surgical residency after deciding that he’d had sufficient of combating fires. So he’s been spending plenty of time together with his fellow interns, together with Yasuda. Plus, he’s been capable of get reacquainted with Schmitt now that he’s again. Now, he’s feeling the fallout of their departures because the present continues on the 2025 TV schedule, as George informed TV Insider:
It adjustments the dynamic. Ben was simply beginning to get to know her after which there’s an exit. He’s simply beginning to get to know this entire class of interns and instantly their group dynamic is altering. Ben’s simply getting his legs again beneath him after which they shifted all up on him once more.
It hasn’t been straightforward for Ben to proceed his path to being a physician, particularly since he needed to leap by means of hoops to take action. To not point out the truth that being married to Bailey makes him stand out in his class, and never in a great way. Lastly, beginning to kind one thing together with his fellow interns has been good for him.
Nonetheless, with Yasuda gone, it sounds prefer it’s going to be powerful on him. Plus, Schmitt leaving additionally means there’s one much less pleasant face round for Ben.
It is common for Gray’s Anatomy to say goodbye to characters, after all, and typically they even return in each everlasting and short-term capacities. Whereas it’s possible Yasuda gained’t be again any time quickly, and even in any respect since it might be too exhausting for her, maybe Schmitt pays a go to sooner or later. On the very least, video calls are at all times doable, so that you by no means know what might occur.
Even when Schmitt and Yasuda don’t return quickly or in any respect, Ellen Pompeo’s titular Dr. Meredith Gray continues to be showing once in a while after exiting as a sequence common in Season 19. She additionally nonetheless gives the voiceovers initially and finish of episodes, so whereas she’s not seen each week, she is unquestionably nonetheless heard, which is healthier than nothing.
The present has additionally been bringing again different favorites, corresponding to Kate Walsh’s Dr. Addison Montgomery and Jessica Capshaw’s Dr. Arizona Robbins. So, it’s at all times doable {that a} Schmitt and/or Yasuda return might occur.
It ought to be attention-grabbing to see how issues proceed with out Schmit and Yasuda, particularly following the nerve-wracking midseason premiere. New episodes of Gray’s Anatomy air on Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC and are streaming the subsequent day for these with a Hulu subscription.