Anyone who is familiar with Shonda Rhimes’ work in television would know that she can deliver the drama. In her hit series “Grey’s Anatomy,” we’ve seen some of the most tensest scenes leading to the show’s characters reacting in such emotion. She also does not hesitate to even kill off major characters in the ABC drama, even if it means for fans dubbing her as a “character killer.”
But if there’s one thing she deeply regrets killing off, it would be Dylan the Bomb Squad Guy, played by “Friday Night Lights” star Kyle Chandler in the Season 2 bomb episode.
Buzzfeed said in the said episode, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is tasked to remove a life-threatening bomb from inside a live human being. While Meredith successfully removed the bomb and handed it off to Dylan, the bomb flew off, killing Dylan and sending her flying off due to the blast.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Rhimes said she never meant to kill off Chandler’s character in the series, and the feeling was mutual. She explained, “He would pitch me ideas on how Dylan, his character, could maybe not explode, and I would show him the line in the script that said, “Dylan explodes.” That’s literally all it said. He was written to explode. But I did not expect to have Kyle Chandler. I didn’t want to explode him.”
Pompeo, on the other hand that the other “tense” moment was when director Peter Horton asked the actress to perform the “fly off” stunt instead of her stunt double. She said, “We had a knock-down, drag-out fight because he insisted I do the stunt. I said, “A fucking professional stuntwoman just gave herself a concussion doing it. I've been working 18 hours. I can barely see straight. Now you want me to try it?” He was adamant. I was adamant. We were screaming at each other. I even said to him, “Why are you even making me do this? You're going to use that take with her head bouncing off the floor,” because it looked amazing. It was like slow motion. Anyway, I ended up doing it, despite me not wanting to. And of course they used the first take.”
However, Pompeo did the stunt, anyway, Cinemablend said, with both Horton and Rhimes clarifying that the stunt was less dangerous and much slower. All three have already resolved their differences over the stunt.
