Its breathing a lot of new life into the show show runner Krista Vernoff teases of the series new additions.
Grey Anatomy is about to do something the show has not done since Meredith Ellen Pompeo Izzie Katherine Heigl Cristina Sandra Oh and George T.R. Knight first followed Bailey Chandra Wilson through the halls of Seattle Grace Its bringing in a new class of interns all as series regulars. Yes the shows brought in new interns before but not with them all serving as series regulars.The new additions played by Niko Terho, Adelaide Kane Midori Francis Harry Shum Jr. and Alexis Floyd will help move the show forward as star Ellen Pompeo takes a step back. Pompeo will only appear in eight episodes of the shows upcoming 19th season.
KRISTA VERNOFF We have not brought in a cast of five series regular interns since the beginning so this is a big deal and it feels really exciting and its breathing a lot of new life into the show. Its allowing us to get back to the early model of teaching and learning. To have five series regulars with the talent and chops and resumes that this group brings allows for storytelling focused on what it is to be a brand new surgeon again and how everything feels life and death and every mistake that you make could kill someone. And it just felt like the right moment. Ellen Pompeo is having less of a role in the show this year, and this felt like the right moment to come at it fresh with a bunch of new characters.
Well we worked hard to not make them copies of the originals. They are very much their own event. Heres what I can tell you. Heres the really big difference between the season 1 class and the season 19 class: In season 1 Grey Sloan was one of the top-rated hospitals with top rated surgical interns from all around the country. And at the end of season 18, Grey Sloan had to shut down its residency program because various things had fallen apart and the surgical program needed to be rebooted.
So what has happened here is that they've reopened surgical program on the heels of having been shut down, and that changes who's applying to the program. But add to that, they've opened it six months after it shut down, which puts them in the middle of a year, which is not matching time. So this class is all diamonds in the rough. These are people who didn't match or who maybe got kicked out of a first residency who have something in their history that caused their grades to drop. But they've combed through the hundreds of resumes and they've found really excellent candidates who had life experiences that led to them not being in the top tier matches. They are all coming from something that they had to overcome in order to be here.
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