Hi Patrick, you're at the Moosehead Lodge, I see?
[LAUGHS] Can you see?
Can you see behind the Moosehead Lodge, yes.
Yes, what is the Moosehead Lodge?
I'm in Northern Maine.
Is that in your home there?
No, I'm up you're shooting this week.
I'm in southern Maine, but I haven't been up here
in quite some time.
Is beautiful, I have to be careful of all the moose.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, there's moose up there.
What is the plural--
Everywhere.
There's actually a sign as you caress this hill,
there's a moose crossing sign, and the lights are flashing.
You have to be incredibly careful up here.
[LAUGHTER]
Wow, there's a lot of moose then.
[LAUGHTER]
What is the plural of moose?
I think it's just a moose, right?
You don't want to say mooses?
No, you don't want to, but you want to.
[LAUGHTER]
And it wouldn't be a pod.
Look, no, but you know how there's
like a murderer of crow, and there's like--
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Yes, yes, I know.
[LAUGHS]
What is it?
Sorry, I am so sorry.
Andy is distracting.
Is the audience answering?
Yes, Andy is answering everything.
He thinks I'm talking to him.
I'm talking to you.
[LAUGHTER]
Maybe Andy does know.
Yeah, he doesn't know anything, believe me.
[LAUGHTER]
Last week you made headlines around the world
when you returned to "Grey's Anatomy"
five years after you were killed off.
How did that come about?
Wow, we got together.
I reached out to Ellen--
Ellen and I got together in July,
and we were like, what can we do to get people to wear masks?
How can we make an impact here?
And we hadn't spoken in quite some time,
so were playing catch up.
And she goes, what do you think about coming back
onto the show?
Here's our idea of what we want to do for season 17.
And I was like, what a great opportunity for people
and how great it would be for the fans
really to see everybody reunited in this sort of bizarre way.
And to the credit of the writers and Krista
had come up with this concept where I would come and visit
her in her COVID dream.
Wow, that's such a great--
that had to be hard to keep a secret.
I know that So few people knew about this, right?
Yeah, nobody knew about it other than ABC-- of course,
some people at ABC--
Krista, Ellen, and myself.
And that was it.
And then we started talking to the directors which
would be Debbie Allen who's amazing
and Kevin McKidd who was one of the directors
that I worked with.
And that was it.
And no one knew until I showed up on set that day.
And then we were really concerned
that someone would take a picture,
it would get out somehow.
But we managed to keep it a secret which
was pretty phenomenal.
And the impact, the response has been incredibly overwhelming
and very moving.
Yes, yes.
You made everyone cry five years ago when you died,
and then you made people cry again when you returned.
[LAUGHTER]
Yes.
[LAUGHS] In an unexpected way, but it
was nice to be able to have it work out this way.
There are so many souls that we have lost right now,
the thought of having angels around us
is very comforting, certainly to me.
Yeah, yeah.
Yes.
So you were in that, and then how many more episodes
will you be in?
That's a good question, I'm not sure how many.
I know throughout the season he comes back to visit.
That's fantastic.
Well, I hope you keep coming back.
And I agree with you, I think that's
a wonderful comforting thought about angels coming back
to visit.
And so they're shooting right now,
is your family with you or no?
They'll be coming in, they're not here right now, no.
So your daughter is in college, right?
Yes, she is.
Freshman year of college in Washington.
Was that hard?
Hard to believe, they grow up so fast.
Yeah, it's really hard.
I think it's important for her to be out on her own,
but as a parent, certainly, this was
not what you would expect for your daughter's
first year in college, what we're dealing with this year.
And then how are--
you have twin boys, how old are they?
They're about to be 14 coming up here in the 2021.
So they're 13 now which is amazing,
because when I first started coming on the show,
they were newborns.
Now they're teenagers.
I know, it's crazy.
And how are they doing with this?
I think it's so hard for kids growing up in these conditions,
how are they doing with it?
It's really hard, because at this point,
certainly at their age, their socialization is so important.
And then being in a Zoom school all the time
is very challenging.
I think the mathematics and certainly the sciences
are very hard to do.
The school's been doing a great job
at trying to keep everybody focused and organized,
and they're making it through.
But it's hard for all kids, I think, right now.
Yeah, yeah, it is.
It's hard for everyone but especially kids.
So you're during such great work with the Dempsey Center.
It helps people impacted by cancer.
It's a fantastic thing that you're doing.
How's that going?
It's going really well, and the Dempsey Center,
we work with cancer patients, we don't treat the disease,
we treat the person holistically, the caregivers
and the whole family.
And now more than ever, it's very hard,
we can't do anything in person.
So we pivoted, and we have what is
called Dempsey Connect, so we can get everybody now
virtually, we can work with them through the technology which
is good.
But I encourage people to continue going and getting
their checkups.
I know it's really hard right now, it's really scary,
but if you can, keep up on that, it's really important.
Absolutely.
All right, Patrick, we have to take a break,
and we'll be back.
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