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| Guest | May 23 2016, 08:47 PM Post #2001 |
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| Guest | May 23 2016, 08:55 PM Post #2003 |
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SaRa deserves the world, whether she decides to come back or not I'll always support her in whatever she does. |
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| Guest | May 24 2016, 09:49 PM Post #2004 |
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Shonda Rhimes addresses Sara Ramirez's exit Says Rhimes: 'It wasn’t a big planned thing' Shonda Rhimes says Sara Ramirez’s exit from Grey’s Anatomy “wasn’t a big, planned thing.” Ramirez and Rhimes announced after Thursday’s season 12 finale that the actress was leaving the show after playing Dr. Callie Torres for 10 seasons. Speaking Sunday at Vulture Festival in New York City, Rhimes addressed the 40-year-old actress’ decision to walk away from Grey’s Anatomy, saying she found out about Ramirez’s plans to depart a mere three days prior to the public announcement. “This one was different because it wasn’t a big, planned thing,” Rhimes said. “I had a different plan going, and when Sara came in and said, ‘I really need to take this break,’ I was lucky that we’d shot the end of the season with her going to New York.” Still, Rhimes assured there are no hard feelings. “I feel really good about the fact that she said that she wanted to take this break… I love the woman and I want everything for her. It all worked out in that sense, but I don’t like to see anybody go,” she said. “I find it fascinating that people are shocked that people are exiting. Most shows go for four seasons… we’re heading into season 13.” On Thursday, Ramirez released a statement about her departure from the hit show, saying, “I’m deeply grateful to have spent the last 10 years with my family at Grey’s Anatomy and ABC, but for now I’m taking some welcome time off. Shonda’s been so incredible to work for, and we will definitely continue our conversations! I send my love to Ellen [Pompeo, Grey’s star], the rest of the cast and crew, and I look forward to always being a part of the Shondaland family!” On Sunday, Rhimes said she understands the grueling schedule an actor faces while filming a major network drama, especially one like Grey’s Anatomy, which has shot anywhere between 17 and 27 episodes per season since its nine-episode freshman run in 2005. “You grow and you change and you do a lot of things, but after a while you start to itch to do something new or you itch to take a break, and it’s not like they’re going to starve if they take a break. They’ve earned it,” Rhimes said. “You have two months off, so it’s not easy to get something else. I don’t think Ellen has done a single movie or anything since she’s started Grey’s.” Rhimes also discussed previous Grey’s exits, including Sandra Oh, who left after season 10. “I think Sandra did [Grey’s] for 10 seasons, and then was ready to go,” she said. “I kept waiting; season 6, season 7, season 8… I’d be like, ‘Sandra, are you good?’ because I know what that is for an actor.” Ramirez is the third major cast member to leave Grey’s Anatomy in as many seasons, following Oh and star Patrick Dempsey, whose character was killed off last year. |
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| Guest | May 24 2016, 09:53 PM Post #2005 |
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I think SaRa didn't tell Shonda before so she couldn't have time to kill her character.
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| Guest | May 24 2016, 09:54 PM Post #2006 |
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| Guest | May 25 2016, 10:51 AM Post #2007 |
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I wish Callie didnt leave. |
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| Guest | May 25 2016, 11:36 PM Post #2008 |
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@GreysABC Wine makes everything better. #GreysAnatomy #WineWednesday #NationalWineDay twitter.com/GreysABC/status/735556 |
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| Guest | May 25 2016, 11:38 PM Post #2009 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 06:18 PM Post #2010 |
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“Grey’s Anatomy” Says Goodbye To Callie Torres, TV’s Best Ever Bisexual Character On last night’s season 12 Grey’s Anatomy finale, Callie Torres said goodbye to Seattle Grace. She didn’t get shot or stabbed or blown up by a bomb trapped in a patient’s stomach; she didn’t get hit by a train or smashed by a car or thrown from a plane; she didn’t get flattened by an earthquake or leveled by stray shrapnel or sucked up into a tornado and flung through the sky to Oregon. She didn’t even get swallowed up by the Parking Lot of No Return like her first girlfriend, Erica Hahn. Callie simply reached a custody agreement with her ex-wife, and walked out the door to go to New York with her girlfriend, Penny. An exit that un-traumatic, on Shondaland, is like ascending to the right hand of God. Sure, I wish Callie and Arizona had been able to work it out. Or, if they hadn’t, I wish Callie had left the show with a relationship that had some resonance, even just a little spark. And, well, while I’m wishing, I also would have loved to see Callie leave without the bizarro out-of-character behavior that led up to her exit, forcing her friends to take sides in an ugly custody battle. That’s no way to remember the most beloved bisexual character in the history of TV! I didn’t love the way she left, but I will never forget the way she got there. Eight years ago, the world was a very different place for gay women. The end of 2008 saw California pass its now infamous Proposition 8, a voter-approved ballot initiative that overturned California’s same-sex marriage law and made it illegal for gay people to get married. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was still going strong. We were facing a pandemic of gay teens committing suicide after being bullied by their parents and peers. President Obama was still four years away from from supporting marriage equality. We knew nothing was going to change in the real world if gay representation didn’t change on TV, and there was nothing to watch on TV! The L Word was on its way out, South of Nowhere was airing its final episodes, and Cashmere Mafia — our one hope for representation on broadcast network TV — had gotten canned after seven episodes. We sustained ourselves watching Skins and subtitled soaps on YouTube, but those portrayals of queerness didn’t force Americans to grapple with their ignorance or bigotry. Into that bleak void wandered Callie Torres. She arrived on Grey’s Anatomy in season two as a love interest for George O’Malley, but she quickly became a fan favorite and was elevated to series regular and then main character. Callie was tough but vulnerable, unapologetically competent, smart and sarcastic, a proud Latina, and one day she just fell for a woman. It didn’t work out with her and Erica, but then she fell for another woman — an unprecedented turn of events, actually. In 2008, established female characters who kissed guest starring female characters on the mouth only ever did so for three episodes at most, and then it was back to men and never a mention of their queerness ever again. But not Callie! The golden days of Callie and Arizona’s relationship played out on one of the most watched TV shows in America, at a time when Americans were trying to decide whether or not they were cool with gay people having the same civil liberties as straight people. The GOP and evangelical Christian leaders hammered home the message that gay people were faithless deviants, but Callie and Arizona contradicted that lie in 12 million living rooms every single Thursday night. Callie came out to her super religious dad, who didn’t take it so well, but ultimately embraced his daughter’s sexuality. Inside the show, Callie’s bisexuality was never an issue with her co-workers and friends, and when she and Arizona got married, the doctors at Seattle Grace cried as much as we did. Callie was extra special because she identified as bisexual, actually said the word “bisexual” out loud on television. She had deep, life-changing relationships with men and women. But Grey’s Anatomy‘s writers never leaned into the tired, damaging tropes that have plagued bisexual representation on TV and in movies forever. She wasn’t a psychopath. She wasn’t depraved. She wasn’t unable to commit or remain monogamous. She wasn’t a prop for a threesome, a ratings stunt, or a gateway for the male gaze. Callie was a complicated, fully-realized woman who loved men and later recognized she loved women too. And she refused to apologize for either. Things have changed so much since Callie came out, in large part because Callie came out. She clocked 240 episodes on Grey’s Anatomy, making her the longest running queer character in television history. And after she came out, 227 more lesbian and bisexual TV characters made their way into the world. Callie confronting her father about his unwillingness to accept her sexuality is one of my all-time favorite TV moments. It makes me cry every time. Jesus may be her savior, but in one of the bleakest moments of visibility in modern gay rights history, Calliope Torres was ours. She told America they couldn’t pray away the gay, and she was right, and we believed her. |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 07:09 PM Post #2011 |
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SaRa did an excellent job portraying Callie with honesty even when the plot lines got ridiculous. Finale didn’t reflect an appreciation of how significant Callie’s character was. |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:13 PM Post #2012 |
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Rewatching Grey's has always been a favorite pass time of mine.. especially rewatching seasons 5 and 6, because they had so many beautiful moments. So many memorable scenes and so many breath taking kisses. #CalzonaForever |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:24 PM Post #2013 |
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Who's in a pic? |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:37 PM Post #2014 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:54 PM Post #2015 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:55 PM Post #2016 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 08:56 PM Post #2017 |
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Couldn't agree more. |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:05 PM Post #2018 |
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I don't get it... They bild up Callie's all house. Ok, they needed a bedroom for Callie/Penny and Callie/Meredith scenes. But why wasted so much time/money for dining & living rooms? ![]() |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:11 PM Post #2019 |
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Shonda Rhimes Didn’t Know Sara Ramirez Wasn’t Returning to Grey’s Anatomy Until You Did Shonda Rhimes is a master of exits. In her five television shows, she’s had to kill off, maim, or slowly disappear countless characters. But it turns out the exit of Callie Torres from Grey’s Anatomy wasn’t long in the works at all. (Sara Ramirez made the announcement she wouldn’t be returning on Instagram on Friday.) In fact, the Grey’s Anatomy finale was already finished when Rhimes found out Ramirez wouldn’t be back for next season. “I found out maybe three days before you guys [the public] found out,” Rhimes revealed during a conversation with Stacey Wilson Hunt at the third annual Vulture Festival. This departure, indeed, was different from all the others: “It wasn’t a big, planned thing. I had a different plan going and then Sara came and said, ‘I really need to take a break.’ I was sort of lucky that we had shot the end of the season with her going to New York.” There are no hard feelings, however, as their mutual social media posts suggested earlier this week. (Rhimes tweeted that Sara “will always have a home at Shondaland.”) “I love the woman and I want everything for her so it all worked out in that sense,” Rhimes said. |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:13 PM Post #2020 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:26 PM Post #2021 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:32 PM Post #2022 |
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I know there are peeps here who think Sara and Capshaw don't like each other. Which may or may not be true, but they WTF. Capshaw could and would fake a tweet wishing her well. |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:43 PM Post #2023 |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:52 PM Post #2024 |
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Grey’s Anatomy Star Sara Ramirez |
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| Guest | May 26 2016, 09:55 PM Post #2025 |
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