Ellen Pompeo Calm Down podcast interview
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Ellen Pompeo revealed that she earned less than Patrick Dempsey during her time on Grey's Anatomy, even though she was the face of the show. She explained, 'The television game was so different then he had done like 13 pilot before me nothing personal to him but only a man can have 13 fail TV pilot.' Pompeo added that Dempsey was 'a bigger star than' her at the time. The full clip is from her interview on the Calm Down podcast.
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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 that goes back to my earlier point of like 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.
