Ellen Pompeo has loads of pleased reminiscences from the set of Grey's Anatomy — and no less than one that also haunts her to at the present time.

The actress, who has starred in additional than 400 episodes of the long-running medical drama, just lately regarded again on a intercourse scene from it that she has by no means been capable of watch, as a result of filming it was such an "uncomfortable" expertise for her.

As followers of Meredith Gray's chaotic love life can most likely guess, the scene in query was her one-night stand with T.R. Knight's George O' Malley.

"T.R. and I are such good mates," Pompeo instructed Name Her Daddy host Alex Cooper on the most recent episode of the podcast, "and we needed to do a love scene, and we have been each crying."

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Calling the season 2 second "so uncomfortable and awkward," Pompeo stated neither of the actors have been eager on sharing a love scene — and it confirmed.

"He didn't need to try this, I didn't need to do it," she stated. "Once we filmed it, it was so unhealthy, after which the community stated there was an excessive amount of thrusting."

After getting the studio's notes on the episode, they’d no alternative however to return for spherical 2.

"In your worst nightmare, to must do it one time— we needed to reshoot that shit," she recalled. "We needed to reshoot it and do it twice."

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A few of that awkwardness was by design. The memorable scene unfolded after Pompeo's Meredith endured a painful breakup with Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and a worrying encounter along with her estranged father (Jeff Perry). Her dalliance with George happened after he lastly confessed his long-held emotions for her — however Meredith instantly deemed their tryst a mistake, bursting into tears in the midst of their hookup.

"I've by no means watched that scene," Pompeo admitted. "I've by no means seen it. I don't know the way it was shot or coated or the way it was edited, however I'm full-on in tears the entire whole scene, and people are actual tears."

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Pompeo famous that in the course of the early seasons of Gray's, "there was lots of stuff that I didn’t need to do," however added that even her instincts typically missed the mark. One other scene she objected to has taken on a lifetime of its personal, greater than a decade later.

The now-iconic second options Meredith begging Derek to go away his spouse to be along with her as an alternative, and has turn out to be one in every of present's most praised (and meme-ified) scenes.

"I didn't wanna say, 'Decide me, select me, love me,'" Pompeo admitted. However she stated sequence creator Shonda Rhimes was proper for intuiting how exhausting the road would hit its viewers.

"I used to be like, 'Why would I do that? Why would I urge? Why would I?'" Pompeo stated. "And you realize, you need to simply suck it up and do it. And it ended up being the most important factor ever, probably the most iconic factor ever."

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Pompeo wasn't the one one who gave Rhimes pushback. Former Gray's showrunner Krista Vernoff beforehand revealed that she, too, wasn't loopy in regards to the thought of Meredith and George hooking up. The truth is, she had an enormous battle with the sequence creator after the concept was pitched.

"I used to be like, 'No! All people will hate us,'" Vernoff recalled throughout a particular 2020 panel for Selection. "[Rhimes] was like, 'They don't must find it irresistible, they simply have to look at it and speak about it. It's not at all times about being likable — it's about leisure.'"

Watch Pompeo's full Name Her Daddy dialog above.

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