Eric Dane is opening up about being written off Gray’s Anatomy after six seasons of taking part in Dr. Mark Sloan, aka McSteamy, on the hit ABC collection. (Spoilers forward!)
The actor’s position was launched on the finish of season two as a visitor star. He grew to become an everyday character in season three after he acquired constructive suggestions for his preliminary look. Over the course of the next seasons, Sloan grew to become a fan-favorite character, however after a airplane crash within the season eight finale, it was revealed he would succumb to his accidents, dying at the start of season 9.
Dane returned to the present briefly in season 17 when Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) was in a COVID-induced coma and was visited on an imaginary seaside by Sloan, sister Lexie Gray (Chyler Leigh), husband Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) and Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti).
The Euphoria actor stopped by Dax Shepard’s Armchair Podcast earlier this week, the place he revealed that he didn’t precisely select to depart Gray’s Anatomy when he was written off.
“I think I was let go,” he advised the host, explaining that he was scuffling with habit on the time. “They didn’t let me go because of that, although it definitely didn’t help. I was starting to become, as most of these actors who have spent significant time on a show, you start to become very expensive for the network. And the network knows that the show is going to do what it’s going to do irrespective of who they keep on it. As long as they have their Grey, they’re fine.”
He continued, “I wasn’t the same guy they had hired. So I had understood when I was let go. And Shonda [Rhimes] was really great. She protected us fiercely. She protected us publicly. She protected us privately. … But I was probably fired. It wasn’t ceremoniously like, ‘You’re fired,’ it was just like, ‘You’re not coming back.’”
In the course of the peak of his fame whereas on Gray‘s, Dane checked himself into rehab for an addiction to painkillers and has struggled with depression over the years. He shared that when he joined the show, he had been sober for three or four years, so he was able to distinguish between what was reality and what wasn’t, however total, he doesn’t suppose he dealt with the celebrity that got here with it very nicely.
“If you take the whole eight years on Grey’s Anatomy, I was fucked up longer than I was sober. And that’s when things started going sideways for me,” he revealed, including that the sudden recognition might have performed an element in why he relapsed. “It was overwhelming, and I think I just wanted to pretend that it wasn’t and that I was comfortable with it. Act like you’ve been there, but you haven’t been there.”
Dane presently portrays Cal Jacobs on Euphoria, the daddy of Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi), and one of many present’s few grownup characters.
