“I don’t find acting terribly empowering,” the woman behind Meredith Grey said during BuzzFeed Brews with Facebook Live.
Ellen Pompeo revealed some shocking news at BuzzFeed Brews with Facebook Live on Wednesday: She plans to move on from acting once Grey's Anatomy comes to an end.
"I definitely don't have a strong desire to act after Grey's," Pompeo said as she sat beside Kerry Washington and Viola Davis, the two other leading ladies on Shonda Rhimes' Thursday night dramas. "I feel myself transitioning. I don't find acting terribly empowering. For the place I am in my life ... I don't necessarily want to work for other people."
Pompeo said her decision stems from feeling a sense of completion with her work on the hit ABC medical drama, which is heading into its eleventh season this fall. "With acting, I don't feel I have anything to prove anymore," she explained. "Grey's is in 97 countries or something, and we've had this blessing of all these wonderful fans who still love us 10 years later; I feel like we did it. And I don't have anything else to prove."
She continued, "I'd like to try and challenge myself. I feel like I got the acting thing. I would like to try and see if I could do something different, and be successful at something different. I feel like I'm very successful at acting, at my definition of success. Some other people want films or Oscars or whatever, and that's their journey. For my journey, I kind of feel like I did the absolute top of what I could do with television, and I would like to try a new sport and see if I'm any good at something else."
