T.R. Knight Admits Gray’s Anatomy Intercourse Scene with Ellen Pompeo Was ‘Humiliating’; This is WHY

T.R. Knight is opening up about what it was actually prefer to movie one in every of Gray’s Anatomy’s most uncomfortable moments. The actor lately shared his facet of the notorious intercourse scene between his character George O’Malley, and Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Gray. Talking with Folks, Knight admitted that filming the scene was a deeply embarrassing and emotional expertise for each of them.

“We have been each simply actually scared for what was going to occur,” Knight mentioned. “It’s like, what are our characters doing right here? What are they doing? You possibly can’t assist however really feel like this isn’t going to go nicely.” The scene occurred in season two of the present, after Meredith’s break up from Derek Shepherd and a troublesome dialog along with her father. George used the emotional second to precise his emotions for her, which led to an ungainly night time that resulted in tears and remorse.

“You possibly can’t actually discover a extra humiliating expertise for each characters,” Knight shared. He additionally confirmed that they needed to shoot the scene twice as a result of the primary take concerned “an excessive amount of thrusting,” one thing Pompeo additionally talked about in a latest podcast interview.

Whereas Pompeo admitted to crying throughout filming, Knight mentioned, “I don’t keep in mind me crying. [Ellen’s] reminiscence is, I’m positive, higher than mine.”
He recalled that repeating the scene made the expertise worse. “I keep in mind it being such a humiliating [scene], after which we needed to undergo it once more to re-tape it. After which that was additionally like reliving it once more.”

Knight additionally talked about how deeply actors care about their characters’ selections. “You see them heading down the darkish highway on a wet night time with no brakes and in a automotive, and also you’re fearful for them,” he mentioned. Regardless of the discomfort, Knight praised the writers. “Let’s face it, all of us make big errors in life,” he mentioned. “And we aren’t all the time at our greatest. I believe that’s one thing that’s an actual, stunning ability of Shonda’s.”

He ended by saying, “They’re going to have this horrible, horrible intercourse that’s going to hang-out them for the remainder of their life. Nicely, George’s quick life, sadly.”

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