It wasn’t simple for Eric Dane to take a look at of Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.
The Gray’s Anatomy alum, who starred as fan favourite Mark “McSteamy” Sloan for six seasons, has revealed that it wasn’t his resolution to half methods with the medical drama in 2012.
“I did not depart a lot as I feel I used to be let go,” he admitted on a latest episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Skilled podcast, saying he was “struggling” with drug and alcohol dependancy on the time. “They did not let me go due to that,” he added, “though it undoubtedly did not assist.”
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Eric Dane on ‘Gray’s Anatomy’.
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Dane then clarified that he was “in all probability fired” from the present as a consequence of monetary causes. “I used to be beginning to change into, as most of those actors who’ve spent important time on a present, you begin to change into very costly for the community,” he stated. “And the community is aware of that the present goes to do what it should do regardless of who they carry on it. So long as they’ve their Gray, they’re wonderful. I wasn’t the identical man they’d employed, so I had understood after I was let go.”
A consultant for ABC didn’t instantly reply to Leisure Weekly’s request for remark.
Nonetheless, Dane had solely constructive issues to say about Gray’s creator, Shonda Rhimes. “She protected us fiercely,” he recalled. “She protected us publicly, she protected us privately. I like Shonda Rhimes, and she or he protected me, however I used to be in all probability fired. It wasn’t ceremoniously like, ‘You are fired.’ It was identical to, ‘You are not coming again.'”
The actor, who has been open about his journey to sobriety through the years, instructed Shepard that he’d been sober for “three or 4 years” earlier than becoming a member of Gray’s Anatomy however that he relapsed throughout the 2007 writers’ strike. “If you happen to take the entire eight years I used to be on Gray’s Anatomy, I used to be f—ed up longer than I used to be sober,” he stated, “and that was when issues began going sideways for me.”
He finally exited the collection in 2012, when his character Mark died in a aircraft crash originally of season 9. On the time, Dane instructed EW that he was leaving the collection to be able to pursue “one thing totally different.”
“Gray’s Anatomy is a world — it’s not about anyone particular person actor and the storylines had been form of… you recognize, heading in numerous instructions,” he stated. “So it was a possibility for me to go, and I used to be keen on one thing totally different. I cherished doing Gray’s Anatomy. I might have achieved it till the ultimate episode, however this was one thing I could not go up.”
A month after delivering his scrubs, information broke that Dane had been forged in Michael Bay’s post-apocalyptic TNT thriller The Final Ship, wherein he starred as Admiral Tom Chandler for 5 seasons. He has returned to Gray’s within the years since his departure, showing in a seaside sequence with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) in season 17.
Hearken to Dane focus on his Gray’s dismissal within the podcast above.