Jason George is embracing the time he has left with Station 19, regardless of his powerful emotions about its stunning cancellation.
The actor tells The Hollywood Reporter about his combined feelings because the ABC firefighter drama collection indicators off this month after seven seasons. George originated his position of Ben Warren in an episode of the sixth season of Gray’s Anatomy that aired in 2010 earlier than spinoff present Station 19 launched in March of 2018.
Certainly, followers have been surprised when information broke late final 12 months that ABC could be ending the collection after the present season. “It’s extremely powerful as a result of it seems like we’ve so many extra years in us,” Warren tells THR about Station 19 ending.
Nonetheless, the actor takes solace in figuring out that his present’s workforce was in a position to put together for the finale, which isn’t at all times the case for some collection.
Jason George speaks on the Waves of Change occasion.
Courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute
“Figuring out that this was our final season, the writers received to put in writing an ending that landed that airplane the best way it was alleged to land,” George says. “We received to put in writing a good looking ending, and we additionally received to schedule the entire thing and cope with one another figuring out that that is going to be goodbye as a household day-after-day.”
He provides, “If the viewers feels the best way we felt within the second once we noticed that final shot, they’ll be in tears.”
Gray’s Anatomy followers proceed to hope that Ben — who’s married to Miranda Bailey, portrayed on the medical drama by Chandra Wilson — will once more pop up on the long-running collection. George is open to the potential return however claims he’s uncertain the place any conversations may lead.
“I prefer to assume that there’s nonetheless a Ben-Bailey, or Benley, story to inform,” he says. He goes on to tease, “I feel that’s a risk. There could also be conversations.”
THR spoke to George throughout Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Waves of Change occasion at Santa Monica’s Casa del Mar resort on Saturday. The occasion was introduced by the Ocean Rising initiative and featured a style present of ocean-inspired appears, along with George studying an writer’s spoken-word contribution a few robotic falling in love with a mermaid.
George was wanting to take part, having grown up close to the ocean as a Virginia Seashore resident, to not point out that his dad was a member of the Navy. “I’ve at all times been listening to the atmosphere,” the actor shares. “So I used to be like, ‘That’s a no brainer.’”