After the season 21 finale of Gray’s Anatomy ended with an enormous explosion, followers have been questioning if somebody was going to get killed off the present… and sadly, that occurred within the season 22 premiere.
Showrunner Meg Marinis initially thought everybody was going to outlive, however then realized that couldn’t occur.
“I didn’t need to kill anybody. I didn’t need to kill anybody! Even after we have been selecting the VFX for the finale, put up was like, ‘If you happen to select this one, there needs to be somebody who’s lifeless. This can be a big explosion.’ I stated, ‘It’s going to be effective. We’re going to save lots of everyone!’ After which I sat down within the writers room and I used to be like, ‘We will’t save everyone. We simply can’t. It doesn’t have as a lot of an influence if everyone seems to be saved,’” she informed THR.
So, who died?
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Natalie Morales‘ character Dr. Monica Beltran was crushed by equipment within the hospital and sadly succumbed to the accidents.
Chris Carmack‘s Dr. Atticus Lincoln nearly didn’t make it, however fortunately he did.
Natalie informed TheWrap, “As unhappy as I’m to go, I really feel like it’s earned and it doesn’t really feel prefer it got here out of nowhere. Monica received to do some good things at that hospital, not solely with the sufferers but in addition with the interns and the folks she met alongside the best way. I’m very happy with that character and storyline.”
Meg opened up about why Monica was the character who died.
“We went down all of the totally different situations,” she informed TheWrap. “I did a variety of enthusiastic about it and judging on what I used to be searching for with the character of Jules and the character of Amelia. The story led to Monica, as painful because it was for me as a author and as an individual, as a result of Natalie Morales is a dream performer to work with. She’s not solely an actor, however clearly a author and a director too. So she actually understands storytelling. We went by means of every beat collectively and crafted it in a means that I believe will probably be a very memorable character demise on the present.”
ABC confirmed 17 actors who’re returning for the brand new season, and Natalie wasn’t one in all them. There are additionally two new actors becoming a member of the present this yr!
