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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I see exactly how much Grey's Anatomy makes for ABC Disney. I get to see the number. And then, you know, it's my face. It's my voice. I've done so much work promoting the show all over the world for the past 20 years. It is, I am the, you know, Disney princess of that franchise. So, you know, I have this sort of data to back up. I know the show has generated this much money.
I definitely deserve a percentage of that. And you can do the same. And that's what's challenging. And I've said this before, so I'm sorry if I sound redundant, but It is challenging for women to advocate themselves in different situations and jobs because if you cannot quantify how what you do contributes to the income of that company, it's harder to fight for yourself and say, I deserve this.
Well, you deserve this based on what? It is easier to quantify what you're worth when you see a hard number. So I advocate for women always fighting for themselves because most likely they are getting undervalued compared to what they're offering men. We know that also statistically and women of color and Hispanic women and Asian women, you know, we know all those numbers.
So they're always undervalued. So all women should always push the envelope. All anyone can say is no.
Well, you know, listen, to be completely fair, the television game was so different then. And he had done like 13 pilots before me. That was my first pilot I had ever done. And back in those days, you know, I don't know if they still do this or not. They had like – you had a quote. And with every TV pilot you did, you got your quote, which was whatever it was. So if you've done 13 TV pilots –
And here we go, nothing personal to him, but just in general, only a man can fail, can have 13 failed TV pilots, and their quote still keeps going up, right? But in all fairness, his quote was what it was. He was a bigger star than I was at that point. No one knew who I was. Everybody knew who he was. So he did deserve that money. I'm not saying he didn't deserve that money.
It just – being that I was the namesake of the show, I deserved the same. And then that was harder to get. So I wasn't salty about him getting what he got. I was salty that they didn't value me as much as they valued him. And they never will. And –
And that goes back to my earlier point of once you get to a certain level, you can advocate for other women on your platform or in your job, in your workplace. If you know that you're getting this much and all the other women are well beneath you, You can't just be okay with that. You can't just be like, yes, I'm winning. Cool. Let's go.
No, you really do have a responsibility to look and see what everybody else is making and use your power to say, listen, I appreciate what I got. This is amazing. But I happen to notice this. And I really think that all the women deserve a bump.
It's like, again, yeah, I have some people pleasing element that I think all of us have, right? Well, not everybody, but a lot of people, I definitely have it. And yeah, it's not easy because what you see is, you know, you see the people, I was ready for it, right? Because he made that comment to me. So what I saw was people who didn't say anything. I got emails from all these people.
I'm not going to name drop, but I got a lot of emails that day when that story came out from amazing people. People who were like, how'd you get my email? Congratulating me. But then the ones who are quiet, who don't say anything. And you see it and you're like, okay, but I don't know what to say. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
I mean, I think that it's, Chris really never watched the show. That helped. You know, it was better for him. He knew just not to watch. You know, he really – I was with him before Grey's. So Grey's kind of came out of nowhere for us, and I just think we were on this crazy ride that we were just trying to hang on for dear life. You know –
the part, part of it that was more intense for me, even more than that was back to the tabloid stuff of like how they started attacking him, you know, and bringing up his past things and a record that he had and stuff that he did. And, you know, we don't need to get into a whole racial breakdown here, but like,
You know, the truth is young black men in this country aren't given the same opportunities as everybody else. And a lot of people come from rough neighborhoods. I came from a rough neighborhood. I did plenty of dirt when I was young. I won't get into that here.
But, you know, the truth is publicly he was sort of meant, you know, the racial component of our relationship was really something that he never asked for. And I felt really more bad about that, that I felt like the media was really mean to him and really biased. Because how dare this skinny, blonde, petite little woman be with this tall black man?
The visual of that, I think America wasn't ready for that. The mail that I used to get The racist, hateful, violent male that ABC would get because of that.
I don't think so because the media is so different now. You know, I think what's really helped is... Well, Chris is biracial, right? His mother is white, Jewish. And he grew up in Boston in the 70s in a super liberal, hippie sort of place, right? So he was very familiar, you know, obviously, very familiar with... That type of attention and either, you know, negativity.
Boston historically was always a super racist place. So I'm not, you know, everybody knows that. So. And I think that what's funny about – and Chris and I, because we come from the same place, we're like sort of two kids who made it out and then landed in Hollywood and like jumped on this ride. And we were just so – we just couldn't believe that something was actually happening, that it was great.
I had this great job and we were getting to travel all over the world. And so – in a way, like we had each other and he's a big reason how I got through all that was because he did understand because he is cut from the same cloth as I am. And I think that You know, to your point in women in media or people see you and they have a certain idea about who you should be.
And for me, you know, people aren't used to, you know, I'm probably people see me and they think I'm they think they know who I am. And they don't know that, you know, I'm this like sort of tough, you know, half mafia, half street fighter. You know what I mean? I'm confusing to people because they see me and they think I'm one thing.
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