Ellen Pompeo: 'Uncomfortable And Awkward' Grey's Sex Scene Had To Be Reshot Due To 'Too Much Thrusting'

Grey's Anatomy has a knack for making pulses race with its hookups. But behind the scenes, the long-running ABC drama has also occasionally turned stomachs. Case in point: the Season 2 "moment" between Ellen Pompeo's Meredith and T.R. Knight's George.

"This is crazy. T.R. and I are such good friends, and we had to do a love scene," Pompeo said in a recent episode of SiriusXM's Call Her Daddy. "We were both crying... And the scene was so uncomfortable and awkward, and he didn't wanna do that. I didn't wanna do it. And when we filmed it, it was so bad. And then the network said there was too much thrusting.

"In your worst nightmare, [you] have to do it one time," she continued. But "we had to reshoot that s—t... and do it twice."

Needless to say, Pompeo did not tune in the Thursday Sunday that the episode aired. "I've never watched that scene," she said. "I don't know how it was shot or covered or... edited, but I'm full-on in tears, the whole entire scene. And those are real tears."

Back in the day, the actress was opposed to a number of things that were scripted for Meredith, not all of which turned out to be quite so horrific. "I didn't wanna say [to Derek], 'Pick me, choose me, love me,'" she admitted. Luckily, series creator Shonda Rhimes "knew that was gonna pop. I was like, 'Why would I beg?' And you know, you have to just suck it up and do it.

"And it ended up being [one of] the most iconic things ever," she added. "So I'm not always the best judge of what's gonna [work]."

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