Ellen Pompeo is opening up about future episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and weighing in on the possibility of the show focusing on a pandemic, like coronavirus.
Speaking with Variety in a video interview, the actress and producer revealed that she wasn’t sure at this moment in time. “I thought about it,” Ellen says. “Obviously, we don’t want to get too political here, but I was just watching the news and I saw clip of Barack Obama in 2014, saying that a pandemic was inevitable and that we should be prepared for it.
And then in 2014, the Republicans were not granting him the budget, the access to put together what he felt like he needed to keep the American people safe, is how he put it in his words.