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It wasChristine Blasey Ford’s testimony and how it didn’t mean anything.
It hurt our souls.
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I have a character idea."
I thought it was incredible that a place would design an entire program around one survivor.
A year later, I watched a YouTube video of someone who donated organs.
Something clicked in my head about marrying those two things.
This story is so layered.
It was a very emotional, personal read for me.
VERNOFF:From the moment the script was published, there was a big reaction to it at Shondaland.
Everybody was blown away.
We started having people come up and ask if they could be in that scene.
The women in that hallway are almost all the women on the writing staff.
I think there were more than 100 women.
FINCH: I was the only one who went in kicking and screaming.
VERNOFF:We forced her to do it.
She is camera-shy but she had to be a part of it.
She is on the screen right side, pulling the gurney.
FINCH: I am not a crier.
But I could barely keep myself together to walk down that hallway, over and over.
ALLEN: We had to start dancing in the middle of shooting because it was very heavy.
We didn’t have all day.
We had women who were leaving their jobs to come be in the scene.
I had a good hour to shoot it.
So we lit it and we hit it.
VERNOFF:There was reverence in that hallway.
In this moment we got to say,There are better ways we can all come together.
We can witness each other.
ALLEN:Grey’s Anatomyis about a lot of things.
And we will continue.
We go to the same river but we step in new water every time.
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