Chyler Leigh and Eric Dane played on-screen love interests on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and were good friends in real life. When the news of Eric Dane’s passing spread, the cast members from the hit medical drama were hit hard with the news. While Leigh has opened up about how she felt over the news, in a recent interview, she shared the one thing that she regrets the most when it came to meeting Dane.
Chyler Leigh opens up about regretting not meeting Eric Dane
While talking to TV Insider, the actress revealed that she had a chance to meet Dane during a shoot; however, since she was also filming elsewhere, the two were unable to meet. The shoot that she talked about was the dream sequence that Meredith Grey experiences when she is fighting for her life after being infected by COVID-19.“We were filming all during Covid — actual Covid — and I was filming Supergirl in Vancouver. I couldn’t go down to be there because I would have had to quarantine [for] two weeks coming back into Vancouver.” She further explained that since the travel and quarantine time would have been a lot, she was unable to go on the actual set, and instead had to film her part of the sequence in front of a green screen.She concluded that not traveling to meet everyone is one of her biggest regrets. “If there’s anything that I regret, it would be not having been able to do that,” she concluded.During the interview, she also recalled multiple memories of working with Dane, commenting, “I could pick a million [memories]. He was a wonderful human being.”
More about Meredith Grey’s ending sequence
In the ending sequence, Dane and Leigh’s characters, Mark and Lexie, reunite after almost a decade of them dying on the show. Lexie’s death was shown at the end of season 8, when a lot of the doctors from the Grey Sloan hospital were involved in a plane crash, right after Mark had admitted that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Lexie. Season 9’s premiere started by showing Mark’s death in the same place.Eric Dane, who last appeared in ‘Euphoria 3’, passed away on February 13 earlier this year after being diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
