Kevin McKidd simply added himself to the listing of followers who need Sandra Oh to return to Gray’s Anatomy! The actor, 48, made the feedback in the course of the present’s four-hundredth Episode Celebration on Could 5 in Hollywood. “I might love — and I all the time say it — I might love Sandra Oh to come back again,” Kevin, who has performed Dr. Owen Hunt since 2008, instructed PEOPLE. “I don’t assume she is going to. She retains saying she gained’t. Each time I see her, I’m all the time needling her, going, ‘Come on, come on. Only one.’ Possibly in the future she’ll say sure. I’m all the time engaged on her.”
Kevin continued, noting Sandra’s immense expertise and propensity to maneuver ahead as an artist. “I feel there’s a option to get her to do another,” he instructed the outlet. “She actually is an artist. And when she strikes on, she strikes on. So, it’s not due to any unhealthy feeling, it’s simply she’s moved on.” the TV star added that he’s near the 50-year-old actress, who memorably performed Dr. Christina Yang for 10 seasons. “We’re additionally actually good associates,” he stated, then jokingly added, “So Sandra, I’m coming for you.”
Sandra’s excellent flip because the expert doctor and spouse of Owen Hunt didn’t go unnoticed — earlier than her departure in 2013, Sandra gained a Greatest Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award for the position. Whereas a return to the present could or is probably not within the playing cards for Sandra, she did open up final 12 months in regards to the main adjustments the present delivered to her life again within the mid-aughties.
“To be completely sincere, it was traumatic,” she stated throughout an August 2021 interview on Sunday TODAY With Willie Geist. “The explanation why I’m saying that’s the circumstances you could do your work is with quite a lot of privateness. And so, when one loses one’s anonymity, it’s important to construct abilities to nonetheless attempt to be actual.”
Whereas the dramatic rise to fame as a result of large reputation of Gray’s Anatomy was an adjustment, Sandra instructed Willie that it was manageable with remedy. “I went from not with the ability to exit, like hiding in eating places, to then with the ability to handle consideration, handle expectation, whereas not dropping the sense of self,” she instructed the host. “You simply should work at discovering your option to keep grounded. And quite a lot of occasions, that’s by saying no.”