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Camilla Luddington
Call it what it is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Ludington.
Jessica Capshaw
An iHeartRadio podcast. Well, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Camilla Luddington
Call it crew. And welcome to another episode of short.
Jessica Capshaw
And Sweet Gray's 20th anniversary.
Camilla Luddington
Yes. So we have a couple today.
Jessica Capshaw
Not just 20 seasons. 20 years. Like there's been 20 years since the first episode aired.
Camilla Luddington
Yeah. So when the first episode aired, I was. So, let me think. I was 21.
Jessica Capshaw
Yes.
Camilla Luddington
21. I could legally drink for the first time.
Jessica Capshaw
When Gray's aired, I was. Well, the math would be math at 28. And I had. And I was a series regular on a show called the Practice, and it was concluding. And I read the pilot for surgeons and I couldn't go out for it because I think that I was still under contract and I. Like, our show was on the bubble.
Camilla Luddington
Oh, well, people don't know what the bubble means. We should explain.
Jessica Capshaw
Was maybe gonna get picked up and maybe not. So I wasn't really a free agent and so I couldn't really go out for pilot season, which is why I didn't. Um. Yeah, I wonder. I would have. I think I probably would have auditioned for Izzy back then.
Camilla Luddington
Oh, yeah.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah.
Camilla Luddington
You would have auditioned for Izzy.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah. But I remember watching it and I remember being in love with it. I mean, love, love, love. I remember the original intro, the music. Who doesn't love that music? And it gave me all the feels. And I also felt like. I've said this many times. It's just. It was the perfect. Like, the hook at the end hooked me real good.
Camilla Luddington
You're talking about the Addison Montgomery showing.
Jessica Capshaw
Up and her going to work with her one night stand after. She unceremoniously was like, get the flock out of here.
Camilla Luddington
Yes.
Jessica Capshaw
And she's like, oh, you're my boss.
Camilla Luddington
Yes. And you know what's really funny is I was scrolling on TikTok or something the other day, like, literally two days ago, and that scene came up between Ellen and. And Patrick, and it's so. They're both so good and their chemistry is so excellent. Like, it's instantly juicy. And they're smiling during, Like, I was thinking, like, how would I play this? I'm not sure I would have played it the way Ellen played it. And Ellen played it so perfect. She was like smiling. Drew lines that, like, you would smile through. And it's just. I think they're just feeding off of each other. Yeah. That's all you needed. That scene was all you needed to probably ever pitch any show was I'm like, I'm in instead.
Jessica Capshaw
And you're right. But both of them so winning in the romantic aspect of it. But Christina was so, like the anti hero. Right. She just was just like.
Camilla Luddington
She was dark and twisty.
Jessica Capshaw
Yes. And she was cutthroat and she was everything that you would be in medical school. Yeah. And it surpassed ER as The longest running medical show.
Camilla Luddington
It's insane. But also, I have to say, because we're on the heels of news that came out 212 hours, 40 minutes ago. I got a phone call from our showrunner, Meg, before we got the news, but that it came up publicly that we were picked up. We actually been picked up for our 22nd season, which is insane because in this day and age, this is. It's not an easy task for any series to first off to have a pilot. ABC has no pilots this year, which is insane.
Jessica Capshaw
That's crazy. This is huge. Congratulations.
Camilla Luddington
But for a series to go straight to series is like an anomaly. Just doesn't happen. Like it's so hard. So. But yeah, so I'm excited for the fall lineup.
Jessica Capshaw
2025 fall lineup, ABC.
Camilla Luddington
I think it might be a good one.
Jessica Capshaw
I think it's gonna be a good one. I think we're gonna have some fun things to watch. Okay, so what else is there? So I also heard something. Speaking of the og, Speaking of the original cast members. I was a die hard for Denny and Izzy. And I really have to say I happened upon. I went into the TV room and Eve has gotten to my season. And I walked in and it was there. I was on the screen and it was a scene. And I forgot that when I first came.
Camilla Luddington
Yes, he was a ghost. Is it easy? Notorious, like ghost sex season, which is not really ghost sex. It's like she's having, you know.
Jessica Capshaw
Yes, it is.
Camilla Luddington
It's ghost sex. It's referred to in the Phantom as ghost sex. For sure.
Jessica Capshaw
Yes. But I remember. And I was watching it with you, of course. Of course. I had to stay and wash myself. I was talking to Heigl in the scene and I remembered Jeffrey Dean's in the scene. And it was so hard to shoot because you weren't supposed to hear him. But you had to wait for his line to be over to say your next line.
Camilla Luddington
That's true.
Jessica Capshaw
And I kept looking at him and they're like, you can't see him. And I was like, I'm new.
Camilla Luddington
I'm just trying to get it done. Like, you know that whole listen and responding thing you learned in acting school? Get that. Forget that.
Jessica Capshaw
But like, I'm trying. And so, yeah, anyways, there's that. I did love that. And then I also heard that Sandra oh was in the news for saying, you know, she's always said. And I was there for it. And truly, no one has left a show with the. A lot of times people would leave the show but you actually wouldn't even know they were leaving. You'd finish out the season, and then you'd find out afterwards, some by their. Their choice and some not. But Sandra really knew she was going for quite a long time, and so there was a lot of Runway. And then she was so dear. I mean, the thought she put into, like, writing handwritten notes, and she had these gifts made for everyone, and she was just. She's such an incredible human, but she. She. She might have said in an interview that she maybe. Maybe might come back or that she would consider coming back, and she's never said that before.
Camilla Luddington
She has. Not in the past. She has. It's sort of been like, you know, that's. I've sort of moved on to new waters, and. And she obviously loves the show so much, but there would not. It didn't seem like there would be a return of Christina Yang happening anytime soon, and maybe it's still not happening anytime soon, but the fact. Fact that she would be open to it, because we never got to really work together very much.
Jessica Capshaw
She's amazing.
Camilla Luddington
It was another intern that was always on her service, not Joe Wilson.
Jessica Capshaw
She raises the game. Let's go back a little bit, because I actually have something about Sandra O. That's kind of shocking, which is that Sandra, oh, and I first met because she was in a little movie called A.I. directed by Steven Spielberg, and I was also in A.I. but we were, like, background kind of. And maybe we had, like, a line or two is, I think, is how I remember it. But it was she and I and Emmanuel, we were in the show, in the AI Show. And Sandra later on said to me, which made me laugh really hard. She said, of course, that she and Emmanuel, like, tried to stay close to me, because I figure, like, we're not getting cut out if they stay. If we stay close to Capshaw. And I fully got cut out. So they. So they did, too.
Camilla Luddington
That's really funny.
Jessica Capshaw
You have no idea how many Spielberg movies I've been cut out of.
Camilla Luddington
No way. Wait. Let's just sidebar for a second. Name one other Spielberg movie that you've been cut out of.
Jessica Capshaw
I was cut out of Schindler's List.
Camilla Luddington
You were in Schindler's List?
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah. Well, no, you were.
Camilla Luddington
No, you. But I. Because I know this story from just being, like, loving each other, knowing each other's lives. So you went over to Europe?
Jessica Capshaw
Yes, when I was in high school. Yeah, when I was in high school, our family was making the movie in Krakow, Poland, and it was my junior year and my mom did not want to, you know, split up the movie, split up the family. And it was what it was. So I got homeschooled. And while I was there, I also worked on the movie, you know, wherever I could help. I did after school and there was a party scene and they were like, well, just be an extra. So I was like, of course I want to be an extra. So I put on, you know, a beautiful little dress. So I did that. And then again, probably thought I got a good chance of staying in the pic. I got a good chance of staying in this film. That would be a negative on the cutting room floor. Not there.
Camilla Luddington
I have major follow up questions. Okay. If my dad cuts me out of a movie, I'm like a little knock knock door on that office and I'm like, why? Ay b, put it back in. Obviously, if you want the ratings, if you want the nominations, put it back in. I don't know how I got nominated without you.
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Difference between you and I, I was like, okay.
Camilla Luddington
Oh my God. You were never like, dude, where am I? Seriously?
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Jessica Capshaw
That would really be like, just you saying those words out loud makes my whole body like, no, it would be my worst nightmare.
Camilla Luddington
All right.
Jessica Capshaw
And so many people, and I understand why, would say, like, oh, my gosh. Yeah, let's do some scene study at home and have, you know, have him give me some notes, because then I'd really be close to the source.
Camilla Luddington
Yes. I'm laughing because, like, your dad is Steven Spielberg, and you're like, I don't want notes from, you know, like, I'm just gonna. And Martin Ludington, who was the back end of a donkey in some sort of production, is not afraid to give me all the notes. I have to listen to those. But, you know, to each their own.
Jessica Capshaw
To each their own. I know. But you know what? Every once in a while, I will send. If I. If I'm proud of a tape I've done, I'll send it to him. And he's just the best at giving. It's not even feedback. I think that's what it is that I'm not asking for feedback. It's just. He's so great at being like, that was amazing. And, like, does it full force just, you know, he's just a. He's on the sidelines clapping.
Camilla Luddington
If you could have been. Because now I'm going to pick your brain on this. If you could have been in one movie of his. Is there a movie that you're like, I wish I played Gertie in ET I wanted to be in Jurassic Park. There's the girl. The sister, brother.
Jessica Capshaw
Oh, right. That was a scary scene. When they're in the.
Camilla Luddington
I know. It was amazing. When they're in the car and everything. Yeah. What's. If you could be one character in his movie, what would it have been?
Jessica Capshaw
Oh, I'm slow on the uptake for these things. I'm going to need to think about that.
Camilla Luddington
Okay.
Jessica Capshaw
We've completely diverged from Grace.
Camilla Luddington
I know we have. But this is what happens. This is what happens.
Jessica Capshaw
I know.
Camilla Luddington
Listen, we're celebrating Grace. Part of our history going into season 22.
Jessica Capshaw
Am I going to come back for season 22? I think I should.
Camilla Luddington
I think you should listen. I can't say what I know right now, but there are reasons that you really, really. We need you.
Jessica Capshaw
It's called a teaser.
Camilla Luddington
I do think that we should get Meg on here. Meg has to come on and she has to.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah. Spill the beans.
Camilla Luddington
Has to. Sort of. We got to pick our brain on next.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. Okay.
Camilla Luddington
All right.
Jessica Capshaw
I'LL put it. My schedule. I'll put it on my calendar.
Camilla Luddington
Yeah, put it on the calendar.
Jessica Capshaw
Okay. What do you see as the future for the show? Are you. What do you think about Joe in season 22? You gonna have a little fun? You gonna cry? You're gonna. You gonna laugh? You're gonna. What are you gonna do?
Camilla Luddington
I. Hopefully in season 22, she will be a mother to. It would be a new part of motherhood to her. She's pregnant with twins. So I think we're gonna really dive in and explore that. The show in general. I think maybe we might be getting a new intern class. I feel like it's time, you know, like you do. You know, after a certain amount of time, there's. You're due for, like, a new set of interns. What spices things up? I think we might be due.
Jessica Capshaw
I like it. I like a little spice.
Camilla Luddington
I know. If you could come back and do one thing, what would it be? Would you want to get drunk at Joe's bar?
Jessica Capshaw
Oh, my gosh. Definitely get drunk at Joe's bar.
Camilla Luddington
Yes. I feel like it's always such a fun thing to do on the show's bar.
Jessica Capshaw
Uhhuh. I know. And when I came back last time, I got to do kind of a badass medical, so I feel like I checked that box.
Camilla Luddington
You need, like, the social.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah. I feel like. I feel like it would be kind of fun to be back at the hospital, but, like, in streets and just coming by to say hi, and then in my streets and my total casual. Just Arizona stopping by for something. There was something crazy and emergent with, you know, one of my people where, like, they really needed me.
Camilla Luddington
Yeah.
Jessica Capshaw
Like, keep your finger on the bomb type storyline, you know, like, eat, you know?
Camilla Luddington
I love it.
Jessica Capshaw
Yeah. Yeah.
Camilla Luddington
I love it. Are you still. If you do the finger on the bomb, are you still in streets? Like, because I'm imagining some sort of cashmere lot of jewels.
Jessica Capshaw
It's New York. It's. But it's New York. Arizona. Yeah. Yeah. Or, like, I think it'd be kind of fun if you. If you had. If, like, Arizona came back and maybe had, like, a little flirtation with someone that was there.
Camilla Luddington
It was like, hey, a little. Listen, that's what we do on this show. You just gotta hit that supply closet, and it'll happen.
Jessica Capshaw
Oh, my gosh. Oh, that supply closet.
Camilla Luddington
Hit the elevator.
Jessica Capshaw
All right, you guys, we are celebrating happy 20th grades.
Camilla Luddington
You rock Anatomy. Shonda Rhimes, you are all the feels and, you know, credit to Shonda. For being just her.
Jessica Capshaw
Wrote it in her pajamas.
Camilla Luddington
Yes.
Jessica Capshaw
Is that true? Yeah.
Camilla Luddington
Oh, my God.
Jessica Capshaw
Put the pilot in her pajamas now.
Camilla Luddington
I want to know what kind of PJs those were. I need those PJs. Those are manifesting PJs.
Jessica Capshaw
They should. I hope she still has the PJs.
Camilla Luddington
I hope she's still flying off the shelves. All right, call it, crew.
Jessica Capshaw
Let's call it the end of the episode.
Podcast Information:
Episode: "Call It Short & Sweet: The Big Grey's 2-OH!" Release Date: April 5, 2025
The episode begins with Jessica and Camilla celebrating the monumental 20th anniversary of Grey's Anatomy. They reflect on the show's inception and their personal lives during its early days.
Jessica shares her experiences balancing her role on The Practice while gearing up for Grey's Anatomy, highlighting the uncertainty and excitement of launching a new series.
The hosts delve into their deep affection for the original cast and pivotal moments that defined the series' success.
Jessica reminisces about the show's captivating intro and the chemistry between Addison Montgomery and Derek Shepherd.
Camilla adds her admiration for the seamless chemistry and memorable scenes that made the show a fan favorite.
A significant portion of the conversation centers around Sandra Oh's exit from the series, offering personal anecdotes and insights into the decision's impact.
Jessica shares memories of working with Sandra in A.I. and their camaraderie on set.
Camilla reflects on Sandra's professionalism, noting her thoughtful gestures and the lasting impression she left on the cast and crew.
They discuss the possibility of Sandra Oh returning to the show, acknowledging her openness while recognizing current uncertainties.
Jessica and Camilla share amusing behind-the-scenes stories, including their experiences with Spielberg films, providing fans with a glimpse into their careers outside Grey's Anatomy.
They humorously discuss their interactions with directors and the challenges of staying visible on set.
Exciting news unfolds as Camilla reveals that Grey's Anatomy has been picked up for its 22nd season, an impressive feat in today's television landscape.
Jessica jokes about potential storylines, such as returning to Joe's bar or casually assisting at the hospital.
They discuss upcoming plot lines, including Joe's pregnancy with twins and the introduction of a new intern class to keep the storyline fresh.
The bond between Jessica and Camilla shines as they discuss future collaborations, hinting at having showrunner Meg present in upcoming episodes.
The episode concludes with heartfelt appreciation for Grey's Anatomy and its creator, Shonda Rhimes. The hosts express their ongoing commitment to the series and excitement for its future.
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This episode offers fans an intimate look into the enduring friendship between Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington, their cherished memories from Grey's Anatomy, and exciting prospects for the show's future. Their candid conversations and shared experiences provide a heartfelt tribute to the series that has captivated audiences for two decades.