“And I was like… ‘This is my show.
This is my set.
Who are you telling?'”
Ellen Pompeo and Denzel Washington.Rich Fury/Getty Images (2)
“He made this choice to speak very softly.
“Again, we love actors who make choices, right?
And I yelled at him, and I was like, ‘Look at me when you apologize.
Look at me.’
And that wasn’t in the dialogue, and Denzel went ham on my ass.”
She continued: “He was like, ‘I’m the director.
Don’t you tell him what to do.’
And I was like, ‘Listen, motherfer, this is my show.
This is my set.
Who are you telling?’
Like, ‘You barely know where the bathroom is.’
“I was like, ‘Yeah, he yelled at me today.
So it was an amazing experience, it really was.”
In fact, Pompeo couldn’t help but gush over what it was like to have Washington on set.
“Denzel is likehis energy is just nuts.
He has this vibration, right?”
she said earlier in the podcast.
“Certain actors just have an energy and a chemistry like, superstars are superstars for a reason…
There’s just like an energy and a vibration that they give off that makes them super charismatic.
Patrick has it, Obama has it.
“Debbie Allen was like, ‘What can I do to keep Ellen interested?
What can I do to keep Ellen here?’
I’ve got to go now.
Sandra’s [Oh] gone, Patrick’s gone.
I’ve got to go too,'” the actress said.
“And Debbie was like, ‘No, no, no.
You’ve got to stick around.
But she knew I was a huge fan.”
