Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl to Reunite on ‘Actors on Actors’ Years After ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Drama
usmagazine.comNearly 13 years after Katherine Heigl exited Grey’s Anatomy, she will soon reunite with former costar Ellen Pompeo.The Firefly Lane star, 44, and Pompeo, 53, are set to chat about their lives and careers during the upcoming season of Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” which kicks off on Tuesday, June 6.
The outlet announced on Saturday, May 27, that the former Grey’s Anatomy stars would be paired for the interview series.Heigl and the Massachusetts native’s June sit-down will mark their first public reunion in years.Pompeo and the 27 Dresses star were cast as Dr.
Meredith Grey and Dr. Izzie Stevens, respectively, for the Grey’s Anatomy pilot in 2005. After several years costarring on the long-running medical hit, Heigl eventually announced her TV departure in 2010.
At the time of her exit, the Knocked Up star explained she wanted to leave the show to prioritize her family. (Heigl shares daughters Naleigh, 13, and Adelaide, 11, and son Joshua, 6, with husband Josh Kelley.)“I started a family, and it changed everything,” Heigl said in an interview published in Lynette Rice’s book How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy. “I went on family leave and just got to be a [mom], and it changed my whole perspective … that was really the turning point.”Amid Heigl’s maternity leave and desire to take a step back from Grey’s, tension behind-the-scenes started brewing.
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