Will Bailey’s Ben Be Back on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’?
June 30, 2010 by tv show news · Leave a Comment
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“How many of us go through long-term relationships that end and then you have to sit there and figure out what to do now,” he tells TV Guide . “That’s her journey. It was about that discovery and how it will change her personality.”
But whatever happens, she says, that relationship, the first for Bailey in a long while and a source of comfort for Grey’s Anatomy fans who like seeing the Nazi happy for a change, is “important” for her character’s growth.
Rhimes had previously addressed Ben’s absence in the finale, explaining that he was, simply, not working that day. It was a more eventful day for Bailey, who had to pretend to be a nurse to avoid getting shot, then try to keep a dying Charles alive, to no avail.
“There was a great debate in the writers’ room that we should have Bailey say something about Ben not working,” she said. “And I felt like, no, we only see Ben sporadically as it is. He’s not at work that day. And I didn’t want to spend time — because we have so little of it and I had to leave 18 minutes on the cutting room floor –
