Ellen Pombo She received a warning of potential reactions before her salary “Gray's Anatomy”, which is publicly of $ 20 million in 2018.
“My manager at that time told me something literally hit me like bricks,” Pompeo recalls.Call her father.“It was like, are you ready to be inactive? “
You like, what do you mean? And it was like, well, I do not want you to think that everyone will enter, encourage you and clap for you and compose you and I think you are the most ever saved, because there will be many people who are not happy for you. “This has never happened to me.”
Pompeo pointed out that it is difficult for people to celebrate other people, “especially when this person has” something similar to something they want. “
Ellen Pompeo was warned before her salary was published “Gray's Anatomy”. (Liliane Lighthan/Abc Visa Getty Images)
Pompeo's salary was worth $ 20 million with the world in 2018. At that time, it was reported that she will get $ 575,000 per episode, and a reward for signing seven numbers and more. She was the main character of ABC's “Gray Anatomy” Since the start of the show in 2005.
Alexandra Cooper, a hostess noted that men do not “test this level of scrutiny” on money.
Pompeo replied: “He is a lot, and he is my parents, and he hated women and this is what it is.” “Sports players are celebrated for their contracts. Crazy contracts. They don't say they do not deserve it, but I mean, it's okay for them to celebrate it.”
Ellen Pombo starred Meridith Gray in “Grace anatomy” since the beginning of the show in 2005. (Cindy Ord/VF25/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
To combat negative, Pompeo focuses only on work.
She said: “I think what helps me … to take it out of it and stop thinking about myself and what people think about and focus only on the best of what I do, which is the work.”
“When you make a lot of money as a woman, let's face it, you have strength, right? So how can I take this strength and do a good job with her? How can I believe in someone else? How can I help someone else, how can I raise someone else who cannot sit in your situation that cannot sit in?
Ellen Bombo supports Catherine Hegel's allegations regarding “Grace” working hours: “F ——- Ballsy”
Isaiah Washington in the role of Dr. Preston Berk, Ellen Pompeo as Merridith Gray, Patrick Dempsey in the role of Dr. Derek Shepherd, Kate Walsh in the role of Dr. Edison Shepherd, Tran Knight as “George Omal”, Justin Chambers, Catherine Carrev, Chandra Wilson “Miranda Billy, James Picins J. Heigl as ISOBEL “IZZIE” “Stevens Star on” Gray's Anatomy “. (Frank Oceanvils/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
The actress explained that it was not necessarily what people say about her contract, but what they did not say after the disclosure of the salary.
The actress pointed out that “I was ready for that because he made this comment to me, so what I saw is the people who did not say anything.” “I received email messages from all these people. I will not remember the design of Drop. I received a lot of emails on that day when this story came out of great people. The people you love,” How will you get my e -mail? “Congratulations.
“But I don't know what to say,” she added. “Do not hate the player, you hate the game.”
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The 55 -year -old actress negotiated the amazing contract after seeing the numbers for herself.
Ellen Pombo decided to leave her full -time role in “Gray's Anatomy” after season 19. (Mike Rosental)
Pompeo noticed that she knew exactly “the medical drama that ABC was making, specifically the extent of her character to the success of” Gray's Anatomy “.
“It is my face, it's my voice. I have done a lot of promotion to show all over the world over the past twenty years,” she said. “I am a Disney princess in this privilege, so I have data from which a backup can be made. I know that the exhibition has led to a lot of money. I definitely deserve a percentage of that.”
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The Battle of Pompeo came for her huge salary after she got less money than Patrick Dempsey for the experimental episode though Meridith Gray Being the main character of the show.
Ellen Pombo revealed that she made less than the participating star Patrick Dempsey for the experimental episode of “Grace Anatomy”. (Getty Images)
“To be completely fair, the TV game was very different at the time,” Pompeo said. “He did 13 pilots in front of me. Nothing for him, only in general, only a man who can have 13 failed pilots and continue their quotation rising, right? But, in all fairness, his quote was what it was.
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“It was a bigger star than I was at that point,” she confessed. “No one knew who I was. Everyone knew who he was, so he was worth this money. I didn't say he was not worth this money. It is only, because I was carrying the same name, I deserved it, and that was more difficult.
“I was not salty about getting what he got. I was salty because they did not appreciate me as much as they appreciated, and they never did so.”
