From her initial audition (for a different role!)
“I really, really felt I did my job.
“And I think that they planned it beautifully,” she says.
Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), Dr. Dixon (Mary McDonnell), and Bailey (Chandra Wilson) on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Credit:Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
And I think that at least I hope myself and the writers, we did that.”
“I am glad for the show to use the character as they see fit.
Absolutely,” Oh says of the storytelling machine.
George Bailey (T.R. Knight), Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), and Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Ron Tom/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“The character should still be there to service the story and so, yay!”
But as for physically returning to the show?
Since her final episode,Oh has been vehement in her stance of not playing Cristina again.
Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Eric McCandless/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“For the longest time, it has always been a hard no.
And it’s just….
I don’t know.
I just don’t know,” she starts, searching for the right words.
“When you finish something, it’s a deep process….
I just cannot tell you….
I can’t stress to you enough how consciously I tried to fully process leaving.
That’s the part that makes me just go,hmmm.”
Someone get Shonda on the line, stat!
