Ele está de volta dos mortos e com certeza parece bem!
Os fãs de Grey’s Anatomy ficaram surpresos após a estreia da 17ª temporada na quinta-feira, depois que Patrick Dempsey fez uma aparição chocante.
Derek Shepherd was was killed off the series five years ago in a road accident. But if you thought his appearance in next week’s episode was a one time only thing – you’d be mistaken.
Krista Vernoff, the current Grey’s Anatomy showrunner, has revealed that fans can expect more appearances from Dempsey, 54, throughout the season.
The 46-year-old screenwriter told the Los Angeles Times that the late Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd will reappear three more times during the current season.
“We will see more of [Derek] this season,” she told the Times. “This was not just a cameo. He will appear three more times.”
In Thursday night’s premiere, Dr. Meredith Grey, (Ellen Pompeo), collapsed in the parking lot of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
During a dream sequence Shepherd reappeared to his former wife on a sandy beach.
The scene was filmed in Malibu, as both actors live nearby.
Shonda Rhimes, who created Grey’s Anatomy, told E! at the time that McDreamy had to be killed off once Dempsey wanted to leave the show.
The TV creator explained his love story with Dr. Meredith Grey would be compromised if he left her and their children.
Meredith and Derek’s love story – affectionately dubbed “Mer/Der” – was a hit with fans for 11 seasons.
But towards the end of season 11, Derek character was killed when his car was struck by a semi truck after he stopped to assist the victims of a car crash.
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The surprise return of Patrick Dempsey was a closely guarded secret.
In order to throw off the writers and anyone else who might see the script, Vernoff wrote the scene as a dream reunion with her mother Ellis Grey (Kate Burton), instead of McDreamy.
“We didn’t tell the writers for the longest time. When she’s walking and she looks as someone is calling to her, and she goes, ‘Derek?’ In the script, I had it as Ellis Grey,” Vernoff explained.
‘And she goes, ‘Mom?’ We read it at the table that way. Nobody knew what we were doing — to the point that when the crew showed up on the day we shot the scene, nobody knew. It was top secret.”
Em uma entrevista ao Deadline , a apresentadora Krista Vernoff explicou que na vida real Pompeo e Dempsey estão saindo novamente.
Os dois teriam feito caminhadas em Malibu. Pompeo admirava o trabalho que vinha fazendo com sua fundação contra o câncer no Maine, então ela pensou que talvez ele gostaria de trazer um pouco de alegria para os fãs de Grey’s Anatomy .
Depois que Dempsey saiu do programa, os dois pararam de se falar e deixaram de seguir um ao outro nas redes sociais.