It’s long been known that Grey’s Anatomy puts a lot of effort
into making its medical cases as accurate as possible — which
can lead to some incredibly long days for the big surgery scenes
— but a new revelation has fans shocked at just how far the actors
have had to go. An interview with members of the cast is going viral
on TikTok after Camilla Luddington and others opened up about
scrubbing in for real-life surgeries, and the comments from baffled viewers are hilarious.
Grey’s Anatomy Actors Describe Actually Scrubbing Into Surgeries
Camilla Luddington, Caterina Scorsone and Kim Raver dropped by The Jennifer Hudson Show recently and talked about one experience that creator Shonda Rhimes required of them before they joined Grey’s Anatomy. Check out the viral clip below:
Jennifer Hudson was aghast that the Grey’s cast had to go to such lengths, especially when Camilla Luddington (aka Jo Wilson) explained that the procedures they witnessed were actually pretty significant. She said:
I thought it was gonna be, you know, like a papercut or a bunion removal, like no big deal. And I showed up and they had me scrub into triple heart bypass surgery. … I thought I’d be in the gallery, like in the show, how we watched. No, I was by the guy’s head.
Kim Raver, who plays Teddy Altman on the show, said she also scrubbed into a heart surgery. She said she was excited about the experience at first, but then started to get a little woozy — as did I when she described that smell — and ended up having to stand against the wall to keep from passing out.
Fans Are Shocked At The Grey’s Anatomy Actors’ Admissions
Jennifer Hudson was not the only one taken aback by the actors’ stories. We’re assuming the hospital would have had to get clearance from their patients before allowing the actors to be present for the surgeries, and TikTok user Tashaluv tried to imagine how those conversations might have gone, commenting on the viral clip:
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Imagine if prior to brain surgery your doctor says ‘And will it be alright if we have Patrick Dempsey observe?’
I actually cannot imagine being stressed out about a major surgery and then being asked if some A-list actor could be there to see the inside of my body for research for a role. How incredibly bizarre. Several other commenters were just as befuddled by this, saying: