What Ellen Pompeo Just Said About the Future of Grey's Anatomy Might Worry You
After 16 seasons of drama, Grey’s Anatomy might finally be coming to an end. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith Grey on the long-running hospital drama, hinted that it might be time to say goodbye to her on-screen alter ego once and for all.
"I'm clearly not prepared right now to make any kind of formal announcement about what my future is on the show, but I am really feeling like we have told the majority of the stories we can tell," she said. "It's about time that I mix it up. I'm definitely looking for a change.
Pompeo’s current contract, which she signed in January, is set to expire after Season 16. Once and if she does hang up her scrubs for good, Pompeo has said that she’s interested in making the leap to directing. “I’d love to direct a pilot. I really like producing, that’s really challenging for me,” she told Deadline last January. “I think I’ve had an amazing training. I’ve had a Master Class in producing these last 14 years. I know every aspect of making a television show. Producing and directing is where I’m challenged and where I’m learning. It’s more interesting to me because it’s a skill I haven’t mastered yet.”
But before Pompeo eventually does move behind the camera, there are certain issues at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital that still need to be resolved. And who better to resolve them than Grey's Anatomy's creator, Shonda Rhimes? According to Entertainment Weekly, Rhimes plans on writing the final episode herself. “I have written the end of the show at least six times,” Rhimes told EW. “But we just don’t end. Every time I thought, ‘This is how the show should end,’ we’ve gone past those moments, so I’ve stopped trying. I have no idea now.”
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