The oldest medical drama on television has almost not occurred due to Grey’s Anatomy The determination of Creator Shonda Rhimes to launch a diversified set.
The boss of Shondaland recently recalled the president of ABC during the casting process of his debut on television, which was created in 2005 because it did not want the series to be “an All White program”.
“I had done something, I guess people did not do it. I hadn’t written anyone in the script,” said Rhimes in the HBO documentary Seen and heard: the story of black television.
During hearings, Rhimes “continued to say:” Where are all the actors? ” They would continue to send us these actors who all look alike, who were white.
The concerns of the Golden Globe Winner were apparently heard, because “this flow of actors began to come. It was really wonderful. We were able to see all these actors who had never been considered for roles other than very small pieces. ”
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“I just knew that I was not going to make a program that I would have been embarrassed to put on television,” she added. “I was not going to make a program that I was going to turn to my parents and say:” Yeah, he has an entirely white casting, but that’s how television has done. How did I say that to my father?
Rhimes said, “When you try to be creative in a world in which you are afraid, I think that a intrepid is necessary.”
Before season 22, which will be presented on Thursday October 16 at 10 p.m. on ABC, Grey’s Anatomy Presented actors such as Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Sara Ramirez, Jesse Williams and more.
