our next guest stars on the very popular television program grey's anatomy uh which airs
excuse me which airs uh thursday nights at nine ladies and gentlemen of the very lovely
sandra oh uh tell us about yourself where you from were you born your family that kind of
i hail from canada canada
yeah from another small town called nepean ontario which is right outside of ottawa and i grew up
there with my sister my brother grayson ray my mom and dad and uh started dancing when i was really
young and then eventually got into acting when i realized that i was not a great dancer and and the
the dancing is it because of the parents i thought okay it's time to take the kid to dance lessons
my mom wanted to correct i had pigeon toes so that's the only reason why she wanted me to dance
and then would she eventually threaten me because i also took piano lessons
which i really really hated and if i didn't practice my piano she
would take away my dance classes and did the piano lessons help your feet
no you know and my mother always says oh by the way happy birthday mom um oh great
add some cake i can get to your mom a little bit
make it a very special day for uh and and uh uh your first acting job when you were a kid
my first acting job actually it was actually not a job my very first acting experience was um
in school i was 10 years old and it was called the canada goose oh yes it was a
little operetta about how great can canadian geese are and i played the wizard of woe
who made everyone sad and uh yeah and the canada goose would fly around and make everyone happy
yeah that's nice but you know in this country the canada goose is regarded as a nuisance
i understand that they're they're they're very vicious vicious and
messy and they come which is nice they wake up one morning and have them in your yard except
that you know labor day they're still here and they they don't migrate anymore and they in the
next thing you know you have a thousand of them in your yard you have a big yard well well thank you
thank you now um what about auditions do you have the uh you say you get jobs right you go out on
an audition you respond to an ad or your agent sends you out is that is that a difficult it's
a hard thing for actors i think it's a hard yeah it's a very hard thing to kind of put
yourself out there and and fail but i always feel like you know if you're going to fail you got to
fail really really big yeah no i i kind of i kind of really do believe that if you're
going to really put yourself out there and risk you got to risk big even if you
know that you're you're going to fail i've had a bunch of auditions kind of like that
so you go in just maybe more than is required and then it explodes or what happens you come
in i think i like kind of kind of coming in with an idea that maybe no one else has done before and
they're maybe not used to it but then what happens is that they are horrified at what you're doing
um and and you feel humiliated for a couple of moments and then you kind of they kind of move
on you have an example of one of these i'm trying to remember an example right now um
because that'd be great if you had an example was that what you were doing
we went to another one let's go let's see what else we got
oh now you saved congratulations this is great
uh you're in the vaughn's or something safeway or oh my god okay that was hilarious oh my god
okay no i didn't i don't want it okay so i play a doctor on tv i am not a doctor i'm not a doctor um
uh so it was like in like the young choir so a friend said and my brother sent me this link
and he goes is this true uh supposedly i was in um uh uh ralph's or something and there was
a child choking and i raced up to the child and hit its back and a candy flew out and i
saved the child's life wow that's great and yeah some place in the valley and um that wasn't me i
see really wasn't you at all no it wasn't i mean there's just some other um asian doctor and scrubs
you know there was it was a time back in the early days of television when if
you played a doctor on television you had to be an md that's a lot of training yeah
that's a lot of trouble but it was just to avoid this very thing you're talking about
and uh uh the the uh grace anatomy is uh uh how many has been like three seasons
now yeah we're and we're finishing our our third season we're like really thank you
we're pushing right now so you're pushing it now yeah we're at the last couple of months of of
filming and we start filming in july so it's it's uh our uh our dramas are extremely grueling and
what we do now with your time off have some fun go someplace i'm just going to sleep good for you
great pleasure to finally meet you thank you very much for being here sandra oh
ladies and gentlemen thank you you