{"id":2021938,"date":"2025-09-14T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021938"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:08:12","slug":"shonda-rhimes-recalls-telling-abc-president-that-greys-anatomy-couldnt-be-an-all-white-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/shonda-rhimes-recalls-telling-abc-president-that-greys-anatomy-couldnt-be-an-all-white-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Shonda Rhimes Recalls Telling ABC President That \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 Couldn\u2019t Be an \u2018All-White Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If not for Shonda Rhimes\u2019 casting-room intervention, Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a> would have looked very different \u2014 specifically, much whiter. The Grey\u2019s creator says she had to insist that her ABC medical drama cast actors of color in a conversation with the network\u2019s president at the time. In the new HBO documentary Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television<\/a>, Rhimes shares how she did \u201csomething people didn\u2019t do,\u201d in that she chose not to write any character\u2019s race into the Grey\u2019s pilot script. So she was dismayed when she was presented only with white actors to cast. \u201cI kept saying, like, \u2018Where are all the actors?…<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If not for Shonda Rhimes\u2019 casting-room intervention, Grey\u2019s Anatomy would have looked very different \u2014 specifically, much whiter. The Grey\u2019s creator says she had to insist that her ABC medical drama cast actors of color in a conversation with the network\u2019s president at the time. In the new HBO documentary Seen & Heard: The History […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2021938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shonda-Rhimes-Recalls-Telling-ABC-President-That-\u2018Greys-Anatomy-Couldnt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}