Kate Walsh recollects first “Gray’s Anatomy ”scene with Eric Dane: ‘He was so good-looking…however can this man act?’

• Kate Walsh shared a candy reminiscence of her first onscreen encounter with Eric Dane on Gray's Anatomy.
• The actress behind Addison Montgomery recalled, "He was so good-looking and I assumed ‘however can this man act?'"
• Dane died on Thursday at 53, lower than a 12 months after he introduced his ALS prognosis.

Grey’s Anatomy star Kate Walsh is remembering her first time sharing the display screen with Eric Dane.

The actress behind Dr. Addison Montgomery shared a candy publish remembering her late costar, who died at 53 on Thursday lower than a 12 months after asserting his ALS prognosis.

"I'm puzzled to attempt to specific the disappointment round Eric’s passing," Walsh's Instagram publish started as she shared her sympathy with Dane's spouse Rebecca Gayheart and their daughters. "At the start I’m pondering of his ladies and Rebecca and holding them in my prayers and my coronary heart."

Walsh mentioned that her first-ever scene with Dane was an elevator scene within the present's central hospital — and that she wasn't utterly assured in his appearing skills at first.

"I consider it was his first scene on the present too and he was nervous," the actress recalled. "He was so good-looking and I assumed 'however can this man act?'"

Dane shortly assuaged Walsh's skepticism.

"In fact he may, and did, and the remaining is historical past," she wrote.

The actress went on to element her admiration for Dane's character on and off display screen.

"One of many issues I beloved about Eric was his sensitivity and vulnerability, (and intelligence, in fact) however he had the gravitas & outdated soul that made his work magnetic and made him an awesome good friend off set," she wrote. "In these early days of Gray’s, as with most community television reveals, we spent extra time with one another than with anybody else and so we grew to become a household of kinds and Eric was such a supply of help and love."

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Walsh ended her remarks with a name to help ALS analysis.

"ALS is an terrible illness & too many individuals have misplaced family members to it," she wrote, including a shout-out to Goal ALS, a corporation that Dane supported after his prognosis. "I do know it was Eric's mission to assist discover a treatment. I might encourage you to look into @targetals in his reminiscence."

Walsh first appeared on Gray's as a visitor star in season 1, episode 9. She grew to become a sequence common in season 2 — and appeared alongside Dane when he debuted on the present in season 2, episode 18. They each labored as sequence regulars on the present's third season, and their characters had been sporadically romantically entangled earlier than Walsh left to headline the spinoff Private Practice. Dane guested on an episode of Non-public Follow in season 2 in 2009 and in one other in season 3 in 2010.

Dane remained on Gray's Anatomy till the season 9 premiere on Sept. 27, 2012, when his character, Dr. Mark Sloan, was killed in a aircraft crash. In 2021, he additionally appeared in a dream sequence in a season 17 episode.

Walsh guested on Gray's six instances between seasons 4 and eight, and recurred throughout eight episodes in seasons 18 and 19. She most just lately appeared in a season 22 episode final month.

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The actress will not be the primary Gray's star to pay tribute to Dane. Patrick Dempsey, who portrayed Dr. Derek Shepherd on the present, mentioned his reminiscences of the late Euphoria star in an interview with The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Friday.

"He was the funniest man — he was such a pleasure to work with and I need to simply keep in mind him in that spirit as a result of any time he was on set, he introduced a lot enjoyable to it," Dempsey remembered. "He had an awesome humorousness. He was simple to work with, we obtained alongside immediately. First scene was him, , in all his glory, popping out of the lavatory with the towel on wanting wonderful, making you’re feeling utterly off form and insignificant."

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