Dr. Cristina Yang is only a telephone name or a textual content message away on the earth of Gray’s Anatomy, however followers haven’t seen Sandra Oh’s character come again to Seattle since her 2014 departure. And it appears like we gained’t see her on the ABC medical drama any time quickly.
Oh expressed an openness to taking part in Cristina once more in an interview revealed earlier this 12 months. However throughout a reside occasion for the New York Occasions podcast The Interview on June 12, the actor seemingly shut that door once more after co-host Lulu Garcia-Navarro requested whether or not she’d return to the function.
“What I’ve observed — that is 10 years out from leaving the present — is the deep appreciation that I’ve for the individuals who respect Cristina,” Oh mentioned on the occasion, per Individuals. “It’s that love that has made me go, ‘Oh. The followers actually, actually, actually need it,’ and for the primary time, that’s once I began opening up the concept. However for me, I feel to actually be true to the individuals who take pleasure in your work, it’s a must to be true to your self. So at this level, I don’t assume so.”
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That reluctance suggests Oh has had a change of coronary heart since when she sat down with Leisure Weekly for an interview posted on-line in March.
“For the longest time, it has at all times been a tough no,” she mentioned of a Gray’s return on the time. “And it’s simply… I don’t know. I simply don’t know. While you end one thing, it’s a deep course of… I simply can’t let you know … I can’t stress to you sufficient how consciously I attempted to totally course of leaving. I don’t really feel the necessity to revisit, however I additionally profoundly perceive the viewers’s love for this character, as a result of I’ve seen it for the previous 10 years. That’s the half that makes me simply go, hmmm.”
Oh additionally mentioned on the time that she didn’t take the function as a right when she walked away on the finish of Season 10. “I knew in my intestine that I had executed as a lot as I might,” she mentioned. “I actually, actually felt I did my job. I additionally was very, very cognizant that not many actors get to do that: create a full character and actually reside via their life, after which really make the selection to return to an in depth.”
Since leaving the present, Oh has starred in and executive-produced the BBC America spy thriller Killing Eve, for which she received her second Golden Globe Award and 6 extra Emmy Award nominations. She gained her first Emmy in 2024 for producing the TV film Quiz Girl, which she additionally starred in.
Plus, Oh cohosted the 76th Golden Globe Awards, starred on the TV reveals The Chair and The Sympathizer, led the solid of the horror film Umma, and voiced characters within the animated films Raya and the Final Dragon and Turning Pink.
Arising, Oh has a voice function within the film Smurfs, out in theaters on July 18, and an onscreen function in Good Fortune, due for launch on October 17.
And he or she endorses the methods Gray’s Anatomy retains Cristina in touch together with her former Gray Sloan Memorial colleagues. “I’m glad for the present to make use of the character as they see match. Completely,” she advised EW. “The character ought to nonetheless be there to service the story — and so, yay!”
Gray’s Anatomy, Season 22, Thursdays, 10/9c, Fall 2025, ABC