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The Audacity Of Ellen Pompeo
Yesterday, a story shared by Grey’s Anatomy actress, Ellen Pompeo, made the internet rounds. In it, she recalled actor Denzel Washington directing an episode of Grey’s Anatomy in 2016. Things went way left when Pompeo decided to improvise lines and direct another actor in the scene, and the real director, Denzel Washington took offense. After Pompeo told the actor, “look at me when you apologize — look at me,” Washington stopped rolling the camera. In her words, he went “ham on my a**,” telling her, “I’m the director. Don’t you tell him what to do.”
Fair enough. Makes complete sense to me. Who knows what constitutes “going ham” from a Black man to a problematic White woman, when she’s telling the story, but, I hope he really did go in on her. Look, I believe he has it in him. Even though my crush on Denzel is no secret, he’s my mother’s age. I grew up watching his movies, and he just doesn’t look like the type to be played with. However, I’m not coming from the place of entitled, white-privilege that Ellen is.
Pompeo, however did not like it, and she responded, by calling him a mother******. She said, “listen, mother******, this is my show. This is my set. Who are you telling? You barely even know where the bathroom is.”
