Chyler Leigh and Eric Dane He played on-screen love interests in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and they were good friends in real life. When the news of Eric Dane’s death broke, the cast of the hit medical drama was hit hard by the news. Although Leigh has opened up about how she felt about the news, in a recent interview, she shared one thing she regrets most about meeting Dane.
Chyler Leigh talks about regretting not meeting Eric Dane
Speaking to TV Insider, the actress revealed that she had the opportunity to meet Dane on set; however, as he was shooting at another location as well, the two could not meet. The footage he talked about was a dream sequence that Meredith Gray experiences when she is fighting for her life after contracting COVID-19.“We were all filming during Covid – real Covid – and I was filming Supergirl in Vancouver. I couldn’t come down to be there because I would have to quarantine. [for] two weeks to get back to Vancouver.’ Also, because the travel and quarantine would be time-consuming, he was unable to go to the actual set and instead had to shoot the part of the sequence in front of a green screen.He concluded that not traveling to meet everyone is one of his biggest regrets. “If there is something I regret, it would be not being able to,” he concluded.During the interview, he also recalled several memories of working with Dane, “I could pick a million [memories]. He was a wonderful human being.”
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In the final sequence, Dane and Leigh’s characters, Mark and Lexie, are reunited after nearly a decade of dying on the show. Lexie’s death was shown at the end of season 8, when many of the doctors at Gray Sloan Hospital were involved in a plane crash, right after Mark admitted that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Lexie. The Season 9 premiere began by showing Mark’s death at the same location.Eric Dane, who last appeared on ‘Euphoria 3’, passed away on February 13 after being diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) earlier this year.
