“That’s How Things Started to Go Wrong”: Eric Dane (Mark Sloan) Reflects on His Departure from Grey’s Anatomy 12 Years Ago – News Séries

Dr. Sloan said goodbye to Seattle Grace 12 years ago! In 2012, Grey’s Anatomy fans discovered that Sloan (Eric Dane) and Lexie (Chyler Leigh) were leaving the show, one during the tragic finale of season 8, the other at the beginning of season 9.

At the same time, behind the scenes, Eric Dane was having a lot of personal issues, which he opened up about in the podcast. Armchair Expert (relayed by our colleagues from TVLine) :

“You’re starting to cost a lot.”

In my eight years on Grey’s Anatomy, I was high more often than I was sober. And that’s how things started to go wrong for me.

“I think I was let go”he continues. “I was starting to cost the channel a lot of money. And the channel knew that the series would continue to [rapporter autant], whether I continued to be there or not. As long as they had their Grey, everything was fine.”

I wasn’t the guy they hired anymore. So I figured they were letting me go. And Shonda [Rhimes] was perfect. She was very protective of us, both publicly and privately. But I probably got fired. It wasn’t a ceremonial ‘you’re fired’ thing, it was just ‘you’re not coming back’.

“We didn’t want him to die,” said the series creator.

At the time of Dane’s departure in 2012, Shonda Rhimes, the show’s creator, explained: “I had quite a few suggestions for how Mark could leave the show, but any option involving his death required us to have a) fairly indefinite grieving on Lexie’s part and b) him walking away. voluntarily from his daughter.

We fought about this incessantly in the Writing Room. We didn’t want him to die, but as the writers rightly told me, Mark couldn’t abandon Sofia and certainly couldn’t abandon Callie after Arizona’s leg was amputated.”

Remember that Callie was Mark’s best friend, Sofia his biological daughter, and Lexie the woman he was in love with, and who passed away while he was holding her hand following the terrible plane crash at the end of season 8.

The devastated hero will succumb to his injuries at the beginning of season 9, alongside Derek and Callie, inconsolable. Just like the fans of the cult series.

Since Grey’s Anatomy, Eric Dane has notably appeared in Euphoria, in the role of the father of Nate Jacobs, played by Jacob Elordi.