Martin Henderson has his arms full with Virgin River — now streaming new episodes on Netflix — however he’s not ruling out a return to Gray’s Anatomy, the opposite hit TV sequence on his filmography.
“I haven’t given it a variety of thought, simply because I’ve been so dedicated and busy with Virgin River and another stuff and life,” Henderson informed Deadline not too long ago. “However I feel [Grey’s creator] Shonda Rhimes has all the time been actually supportive of me; we’ve truly labored collectively a bunch of occasions on various things, so I might all the time be open to the chance. Once more, if it fitted in with no matter else was occurring in my life on the time and my profession.”
Earlier than his work on Gray’s Anatomy, Henderson starred within the 2009 ABC pilot Contained in the Field and the 2011 ABC sequence Off the Map, each of which Rhimes produced. And after Patrick Dempsey left Gray’s in 2015, producers of the ABC medical drama introduced in Henderson to play Dr. Nathan Riggs, a brand new love curiosity for Ellen Pompeo’s Dr. Meredith Gray.
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Henderson is open to a different stint on Gray’s “so long as I felt that the character had one thing to do and I may give one thing, as a result of I don’t suppose they actually knew what to do with Nathan,” the actor informed Deadline.
He went on: “It was virtually like a stopgap measure with the departure of Derek [Shepherd, Dempsey’s character]. It was like, oh, we want a love curiosity. And so he, and by advantage I, was dropped into this world, however I don’t suppose he was ever that outlined. If I had been to return, I must ensure that there was a extremely clear plan for why he was there.”
Pompeo, for her half, expressed her frustration with the Meredith-Nathan storyline in a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I used to be on trip in Sicily, decompressing — it was a protracted working relationship [with Dempsey] and it was a tumultuous finish and I wanted a second to simply chill with some rosé — they usually’re calling me, going, ‘What do you consider this man?’ ‘What do you consider this man?’ And so they’re sending photos,” the Gray’s star mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘Are you folks f***ing nuts? Why do you’re feeling that it’s a must to exchange this individual?’ I couldn’t imagine how briskly the studio and the community felt like they needed to get a penis in there. We introduced in Martin Henderson, however they didn’t love the storyline, in order that ended.”
Henderson left Gray’s halfway by means of Season 14, with Riggs embarking on a rekindled relationship with Megan Hunt (Abigail Spencer). Then the actor moved on to Virgin River, on which he performs Jack Sheridan reverse Alexandra Breckinridge as Mel Monroe. The romantic drama’s sixth season hit Netflix on Thursday, December 19.
Gray’s Anatomy, Season 22 Midseason Premiere, Thursday, March 6, 2025, 10/9c, ABC
Virgin River, Season 6, Now Streaming, Netflix