When a TV present has been on the air for, like, a millennium, protecting issues recent and introducing new characters is the one approach to maintain even die-hard viewers glued to their screens. Contemplating ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy has captivated prime-time viewers since 2005 (being a staple collection within the Shondaverse), it has mastered the artwork of good consolation tv through spectacular character improvement and juicy storylines involving imperfect however horny docs ( you, Sandra Oh and Patrick Dempsey).
Season 20 of the five-time Emmy-winning medical drama noticed Natalie Morales visitor star as pediatric surgeon Dr. Monica Beltran, who’s extra inquisitive about being an incredible physician than getting buddy-buddy together with her Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital colleagues. After showing in six episodes of Gray’s Anatomy Season 20, Morales formally joined Season 21 as a recurring solid member.
Morales spoke with MovieWeb forward of the theatrical launch of her movie My Useless Pal Zoe, discussing what made her come again to Gray’s for an additional handful of episodes because the no-nonsense Dr. Monica Beltran. “I believe the crew is superior, and I like so a lot of my fellow solid members that I’ve gotten to work with,” she started. “I would by no means performed a health care provider earlier than, which was attention-grabbing to me to do, and I actually needed to be taught the technical facets of it. I spent quite a lot of time asking quite a lot of inquiries to the medical advisors on easy methods to transfer, what to do. I needed to really feel as actual as potential.” However one thing about Dr. Monica Beltran herself actually struck a chord with Morales. She defined:
“I favored somebody who’s unlikable as a result of they care about their sufferers greater than you. I want [Dr. Monica Beltran] was a health care provider that I had. … Gray’s is sort of want success in that, I’ve by no means seen that many good docs who care about their sufferers in a single place.”
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“I believe the unbelievable factor about Gray’s is — the present is such an establishment, it has been on for thus lengthy, nevertheless it’s not simply TV. The truth that there are such a lot of extra feminine surgeons now as a result of that present existed than there have been when the present began — that is the ability of media and of movie and films,” Morales instructed MovieWeb. Based on the Affiliation of American Medical Schools, the variety of ladies within the doctor workforce rose from 28.3% in 2007 to 36.3% in 2019. Moreover, an AAMC annual report revealed that almost all of U.S. medical college college students have been ladies (at precisely 50.5%) for the primary time ever in 2019.
“To see one thing on TV [and] suppose, ‘Oh, that is cool. I might be a health care provider that is like that, that cares about my sufferers in that manner,’ that is one thing I like to put on the market,” Morales concluded.
You possibly can catch Natalie Morales in Season 21 of Gray’s Anatomy, which returns on Thursday, March 6, 2025, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
Gray’s Anatomy
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March 27, 2005
- Community
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ABC
- Administrators
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Rob Corn, Kevin McKidd, Debbie Allen, Chandra Wilson, Allison Liddi-Brown, Jeannot Szwarc, Tony Phelan
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Chandra Wilson
Dr. Miranda Bailey
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James Pickens Jr.
Dr. Richard Webber
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Justin Chambers
Dr. Alex Karev
