Meg Marinis acquired employed on Gray’s Anatomy as her first job out of school. Already a success for ABC, the medical drama starring Ellen Pompeo as a wide-eyed surgical intern on the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital was in its second season, proper in the midst of the Denny Duquette storyline, Marinis remembers (a now-iconic present arc between Katherine Heigl and Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Marinis, who had already been tuning into the drama weekly on Thursday nights, interviewed to be the second assistant to creator Shonda Rhimes.
She didn’t get that job. However they had been creating a brand new place, a author’s PA, and he or she acquired that one as a substitute. “I freaked out as a result of I actually appreciated the present, however I didn’t have any thought what it might turn out to be,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter .
“A decade in the past, I didn’t suppose I’d nonetheless be right here!” Not solely is Marinis nonetheless at Gray’s Anatomy , however she’s now main the present that continues to be primetime TV’s longest-running medical drama because it returns with season 21. Marinis took over as showrunner with season 20 after taking the torch from Krista Vernoff, however that milestone season was delayed after which shortened (to solely 10 episodes) resulting from Hollywood’s twin strikes of 2023. “We had fewer episodes than sequence regulars,” Marinis remembers, noting the sprawling ensemble solid.
“I felt like I didn’t champion.
