Kate Burton on the ‘Coriolanus’ play opening evening at Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare within the Park in New York on August 5, 2019. Broadway World/Shutterstock
Gray’s Anatomy thrilled followers with the returns of a number of dearly departed characters throughout season 17, and the present plans to convey again one other former star within the upcoming season 18. Kate Burton, who performs Ellen Pompeo’s character Meredith Gray’s mom, Ellis Gray, will return within the new episodes.
Deadline reported on Wednesday, August 11, that Burton, 63, will reprise her function in a number of installments, together with the season 18 premiere. The matriarch died throughout season 3 after affected by Alzheimer’s illness. Nonetheless, this won’t be the actress’ first reappearance since her alter ego’s demise. In actual fact, she has guest-starred in eight episodes since her character’s dying — most lately displaying up in Meredith’s dream in season 15’s “Blood and Water,” which aired in March 2019.
Season 17 noticed the return of a number of actors whose characters have died in the course of the ABC drama’s prolonged run. Meredith discovered herself in a seashore dream sequence whereas affected by COVID-19, and he or she interacted together with her husband, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), her sister Lexie Gray (Chyler Leigh) and her former colleagues Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) and George O’Malley (T.R. Knight). The story line ended when Meredith awoke from her coma — with out Ellis ever making an look on the seashore.
Dempsey, 55, mirrored on his reunion with Pompeo, 51, in April. “All of us cried initially and we hugged one another,” he instructed Selection on the time.
The Candy Dwelling Alabama star additional revealed that he was open to coming again once more. “Who is aware of? By no means say by no means with this present, proper?” he hinted, noting that he reprised his function as a result of the sequence addressed the pandemic. “I’m glad we did it this 12 months. And [showrunner] Krista Vernoff did a improbable job telling the story. It was simply a good way to offer individuals some hope.”
Whereas some followers appreciated the nostalgia issue, others criticized season 17. “I suppose I’m an alien as a result of this season was dumpster trash!” one viewer tweeted in June. “I like the present however not this season.”
Pompeo subsequently reacted to the overview, taking the unfavourable feedback in stride. “All good!” she replied. “Seventeen seasons we are able to’t please everybody on a regular basis … it’s undoubtedly not simple protecting it going and protecting it nice… I get it… thanks for checking it out anyway… and thanks to your suggestions it issues …sending you like.”
Season 18 of Gray’s Anatomy premieres on ABC Thursday, September 30, at 9 p.m. ET.
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