Ellen Pompeo
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140 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Ellen Pompeo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Serena and Cordell. That's my season. Those are my peeps. Love them. Literally want to get invited to their wedding. They're so adorable. But what? But yeah, like 47 episodes. What? How do you film 47 episodes? It literally must just be like two hour blocks of a 14 hour day.
I think it sort of justifies for me why I've done it for so long. Because You know, as an actor, you say you want to touch people and you want to move people, right? And I think everybody wants to be impactful in their life. Everybody wants to be seen, heard, and have an impact and sort of leave this planet feeling like I did something worthwhile.
And I think if I've been a part of something that brings people together, then, you know, that sort of legitimizes it for me. Because as an artist, you know, it isn't... the most normal path, right? All actors, you wanna chase the trophies, you wanna chase being relevant, you wanna chase the new sexy, hot, shiny thing and work with this director and that director.
And I didn't choose that for several reasons. But the fact that I didn't, you know, it's always in the back of your mind, like, what would have happened if I didn't do this? Much later on, you sort of feel you understand it now.
I mean, I've had a really full home life as an actor, which is something that I probably wouldn't have normally been able to do if I had taken a different, more creative path. But to answer your question, it makes me feel like I've really done something as commercial as it is and perhaps as uncreative as it may be for my field.
I've touched a lot of people and moved a lot of people and inspired a lot of people. And that's more than a lot of people in this business can say. And I think...
And different things work for different people.
You know, at a certain point. You know, I had a choice to sort of finish my contract or stay. And at the age I was, I was like, oh, well, I'll be 40 when my first contract is up. I better resign and take this money because, you know, they offer you if you resign, we'll give you this giant raise. So I thought back then, 20 years ago, 40, women at 40, it's over. That's a wrap, honey.
So I was like, oh, I better sign and I better do this because this is the most money I'm ever going to make and the most opportunity I'm ever going to get. And women in this industry are so incredible because look at how far we've come and every little bit matters, right?
But we all collectively push this giant boulder up a hill and we've gotten it to a really good place where here I am at 55 years old. I just turned 55 last month. You know, and I'm getting a whole second chapter here after this with this new show. So I think that, you know, it's different for different people.
And also being raised in Boston and growing up the way I grew up, which was pretty intense. For me, I became aware at a very early age that people with money had power. And I didn't have any power as a young woman. And I didn't like the way that felt. And I think part of that is just my personality. It's not all your environment. Part of it is just my personality.
And I would watch people that, men, all men, who had a lot of money and a lot of power. I looked up to them and thought they were incredibly cool. And they were all really bad guys. They were all mafia guys and really bad people. Super nice to me, just like good fellas. They were great to all of us. But really, they weren't probably the best guys. And I know that now.
But they were the ones who had all the power and their wives and girlfriends wore fur coats and people literally the sea parted when they walked through and they just had this command. And that to me was like they had it. They had stature. They had money. They had power. So I equated money with power very early on. And as a woman, I'm sure you know that.
how freeing it feels to have financial independence because you don't have to be with any man you don't want to be with. You get to choose what man you want to be with because you want to be with him. And the day you decide you didn't want to be with him, if that were to ever happen, which it won't, you know, you can walk out the door.
I mean, you know, for women, financial freedom is true independence. And, um, Those little patriarchal bitches that, you know, are shivering in their panties right now because I can't. I just cannot. To be financially independent to me is what makes me the happiest, me feel the most free. I don't ever have to do anything I don't want to do. It's –
Just step right on him and just level up. Don't stay under him. If you do what you have to do, girl, use him, get right next to him, pick his pockets and keep it moving. It's okay. And I'm not mad at any woman who does whatever she can to get where she needs to go. I agree. Just get there and keep it moving. You know, don't be in an apron cutting his meat, honey.
I had done a movie with Jake Gyllenhaal. called Moonlight Mile. And it got like all this buzz. People saw it and was like, this is going to be an Oscar movie. You're going to be nominated for an Oscar. This is crazy. And I really didn't know what I was doing at that point. It was my first movie. I was terrified.
And before it came out, I got all this attention from all these people were calling me, all these big producers, all these big directors were calling me. And we thought this was going to be some big deal. It ended up, the studio didn't actually market the movie because they thought the movie was so sad. They didn't really know what to do with it or how to market it.
So they built it all up in my mind and were like, this performance is incredible and this is going to happen and that's going to happen. And CAA came around and the publicists and the lawyers and everybody comes around. And then the movie came out and kind of like it was in five theaters, right? So I was like, wait, what? And then I, you know, I chugged along.
I was trying to be in good movies with great directors. But they were only really small parts. So I kept doing those. I kept getting, like, sort of cut out of those. And then I had no money left. And so this came along. And... I was like, I don't want to be on a TV show. Like, I'm trying to be in these movies. And I had all these people call me and tell me how amazing I am.
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