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Forbes
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Grey's Anatomy' Star Kim Raver On Directing Big Teddy-Cass Scene
Sophia Bush and Kim Raver in the "Grey's Anatomy" episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Grey's Anatomy featured a big character development for Kim Raver and Sophia Bush's characters Dr. Teddy Altman and Dr. Cass Beckman on Thursday night and Raver is thrilled that she was able to take on roles in front of and behind the camera to direct it. The episode, titled Don't You (Forget About Me) gave the acclaimed actor her second opportunity to step behind the camera for creator Shonda Rhimes' classic ABC medical drama after she was at the helm of episode Training Day in Season 19 in 2023. Note: Spoilers from Don't You (Forget About Me) are discussed throughout the rest of the article. Among the major developments in Thursday night's episode of Grey's Anatomy is Teddy acting on mutual feeling for Cass after the two kiss in the March 20 episode I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. While Cass is in an open marriage, Teddy's marriage to Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) is on the rocks, which factors into why the chief of surgery at the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital decides to tell Cass that she's figured out that she wants to take a shot at a romantic relationship after the two cross paths at a medical conference in Oakland. 'It's a very interesting topic that we are breaching with open marriage. It's something that people are going to argue about that is conflicting for many people,' Ravers said in a Zoom conversation on Wednesday. 'People have fans and people are going to have a lot of emotions and reactions towards it one way or another, but that's what Grey's Anatomy does," Raver added. "It brings in topics to have conversations about and those arguments of who's right and who's wrong and who's ruining your relationship or not ruining your relationship, or expanding on a relationship that's right for one person that isn't right for another person.' Raver said when Grey's Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis brought the idea for the episode to her and McKidd, both of them took the major development in the story of their flailing marriage very seriously and approached it with the utmost care. 'Meg did an incredible job when the idea [of an open marriage] was first brought to Kevin and I,' Raver recalled. 'We are very protective of our characters' relationship that we've built over so many years between Teddy and Owen. Meg really listened and we discussed what would be the most interesting way and adult way to broach a marriage that is not doing well and what would that mean to our characters and what that would look like.' Sophia Bush and Kim Raver in the "Grey's Anatomy" episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." Teddy and Cass' mutual attraction for each other involves much more than a kiss on Grey's Anatomy on Thursday night, which meant Kim Raver would have a tall order in directing herself and Sophia Bush in a love scene. While filming a love scene is a daunting task for any actor, the fact that Raver was calling her own shots in Don't You (Forget About Me) made the idea of Teddy's intense scene with Cass much less intimidating. Kim Raver on the set of the "Grey's Anatomy episode "Don't You (Forget About Me)." 'I felt every single person in our crew wanted the best for me and were so supportive of me,' Raver explained. 'I actually felt much more comfortable in the scene because I knew that I would be the one choosing the shots. Creating the painting of a love scene can sometimes feel very uncomfortable because you don't [what you'll] feel like or what it will look like. [But directing] it allowed me to really try different things and feel comfortable in it.' While Teddy and Cass' love scene is intense, it comes to an abrupt halt before it goes even further because Teddy has a crisis of conscience. Teddy thought she had things figured out and she doesn't so she opts to back out of things [with Cass] because of it,' Raver said. 'She realizes that it's not going to fix her marriage and I kind of loved that. I love that you know she's trying to find the path and that [being with Cass] was not the path.' However, in another major development in Don't You (Forget About Me), Owen's approach to his and Teddy's crumbling marriage takes a different path when he is reunited with an old friend, Nora (Floriana Lima). The episode ends with Owen in bed with Nora — and Raver knows it's going to spark a big reaction with the Grey's Anatomy fan base. 'People are going to be throwing their popcorn at the television going, 'What? Are you kidding me?'' Raver said with a smile. While Raver's Grey's Anatomy episode Don't You (Forget About Me) aired on ABC Thursday night, it is now available to stream on Hulu.
The Guardian
30-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend
After her jaunt to the O2, Rachel Reeves may be aware that the musical oeuvre of Sabrina Carpenter includes I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Bad for Business, Couldn't Make It Any Harder, Feels Like Loneliness and Rescue Me. Tunes for the chancellor to hum when she contemplates her approval ratings, which have tanked to the point where her unpopularity is now perilously close to matching the depths plumbed by Kwasi Kwarteng during his brief and calamitous stint at the Treasury. She is almost completely friendless in the media. Rightwing outlets blame the paucity of growth on higher business taxes while voices of the left decry reductions to incapacity benefits as balancing the books on the backs of the poor. The public mood is grim. The Opinium poll that is published today suggests that only half of those who voted Labour in 2024 think this government is handling the economy better than the Conservative one that the country evicted last July. Thinktank world reckons that last week's spring statement was a can-kicking exercise that leaves the fiscal position fragile and the government at the mercy of events. Planned reductions to welfare payments are generating a sulphurous atmosphere among Labour backbenchers and this will not dissipate anytime soon. Implementing these cuts requires putting them into law. This means that horrified disability charities and other appalled groups will have many weeks to campaign against the legislation while venting their outrage at Labour parliamentarians. 'This is not what Labour MPs came into politics to do,' says one of their number who would normally be counted as a loyalist. Can the chancellor survive so much opprobrium and opposition? Yes she can, so long as she still has a friend at Number 10. The opinion that matters to her most is that held by the prime minister. He may be no economist, but he will be the ultimate decider when, and if, her number is up. In the early 80s, Sir Geoffrey Howe had a much grimmer stretch of his chancellorship than she is enduring now, but he got through to the other side because his strategy had a fully paid-up subscriber in Margaret Thatcher. George Osborne's humiliatingly awful 'omnishambles' budget in 2012 might have done for him had he not been best mates with David Cameron. The dynamic between the current duo is interesting. Cabinet colleagues generally portray their relationship as 'rock solid'. There is certainly no sign of the festering resentments and bitter rivalries that disfigured dealings between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when those frenemies were the neighbours of Downing Street. On the other hand, the Starmer-Reeves pairing is not as chummy as Cameron-Osborne who were godfathers to each other's children. It is worth noting that the relative statures of Sir Keir and Ms Reeves have shifted with time and circumstance. In the early phase of this government, it was she who radiated the power. The Treasury looked extremely dominant, while Number 10 was debilitated by the internal struggles between Sue Gray and Morgan McSweeney's gang. Officials were surprised by how little and late the prime minister's involvement was in last October's budget; they were even more startled that Sir Keir seemed content to almost entirely delegate economic policymaking to the chancellor. More recently, his star has been in the ascendant as have his priorities. While the chancellor has been besieged, the prime minister's efforts to handle Donald Trump and give succour to Ukraine have drawn widespread plaudits. His ratings have had a boost, albeit from a low base. They have maintained a front of unity for public consumption, but there have been disagreements behind the scenes. She was initially resistant to extra funding for defence. That contrasted with the prime minister who was quick to heed the argument that more had to be spent on the military in response to Trump's return to the White House. Sir Keir has been very struck by surveys suggesting that global uncertainty is shooting up as a concern among voters. But this is about much more than polling. He regards it as a personal mission of the highest importance to persuade the US president to keep America bound into Nato's security guarantees. He will be pleased if one of the things said about his prime ministership in years to come is that he played an essential role in ensuring the future of the Atlantic alliance. It was when she appreciated the strength of his feeling that the chancellor pivoted to a more accommodative position on defence spending. She has taken to talking up additional investment and jobs in defence manufacturing as a potential engine of prosperity. Once Labour's growth ambitions were concentrated around becoming a 'clean energy superpower'; now the chancellor wants to be a 'defence industrial superpower'. Khaki is the new green. The Office for Budget Responsibility is increasingly controversial in Labour's ranks where there is regret that the chancellor championed the legislation elevating the status and clout of the fiscal invigilators. The OBR has cheered the government by judging that planning reforms will result in a permanent improvement to GDP over the longer-term. But the watchdog also made life difficult for the chancellor in the short-term by telling her that she'd bust her rules unless she made additional spending reductions. The complaint is that policymaking has become too subservient to satisfying OBR guesstimates about what growth and debt might be in five years. I have it on exceedingly good authority that the prime minister himself has come to the view that it is unhelpful, to the point of being barmy, that the government has to live in dread of an OBR report card every six months, rather than face an annual verdict at budget time. It remains hard to detect significant differences between him and the chancellor on the fundamentals. I remarked back in January that their fates were entwined because they were lashed to the same mast and they are tighter bound as the headwinds howl with increased ferocity. Both have made improved growth the centrepiece of strategy, so both will pay a continuing political price unless and until it materialises. Both believe the world has become a darker place since the new year without being able to say explicitly that the principal author of this turbulence lives in the White House. Both share the dread of the damage to the economy and the government's finances that is threatened by the US president. Though his big reveal on tariffs is supposed to be coming this Wednesday, cabinet members and officials tell me they don't have any certainty about what might be in store. Even if the UK manages to dodge the worst of the Trumpian tariffs, we will still suffer from the fallout of a global trade war. Yet prime minister and chancellor remain as one in believing that there is no alternative to doubling down on toughing it out in the hope that it will ultimately galvanise growth and generate respect. Faced with crunchy decisions they'd rather not have to make, many Labour people, including a significant number of the cabinet, think life could be made a lot easier by relaxing the fiscal rules, which the chancellor declares to be 'non-negotiable'. Some of these critics describe it as a terrible mistake to strap Labour into a self-imposed straitjacket. This argument has no traction among her supporters, one of whom retorts: 'We all know Labour governments have to work harder to sustain credibility. Borrowing is right at the limit of what the market will tolerate. If the government cannot prove that it can stick to fiscal discipline, it will be shot to pieces.' In this, the chancellor has, so far, had a steadfast ally in her nextdoor neighbour. When Sir Keir encounters ministers who argue for easing the fiscal rules, he has been heard to contemptuously dismiss it as 'classic Labour' to seek a reality-swerving refuge from facing difficult challenges. Sign up to Observed Analysis and opinion on the week's news and culture brought to you by the best Observer writers after newsletter promotion The prime minister grew up as the son of a severely disabled mother. Rather than soften his resolve on cuts to incapacity benefits in the name of getting people into work, his background appears to have strengthened the conviction that bearing down on the rising cost of the welfare budget is the right thing to do. He is at least as adamant as his chancellor about this. It looks like a coin toss on as to whether or not Ms Reeves will be meeting her fiscal rules in time for her autumn budget. In bad case scenarios, she will have to further tighten spending and/or introduce more tax increases. Then she will really need a foul-weather friend at Number 10. Andrew Rawnsley is the Chief Political Commentator of the Observer
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Grey's Anatomy Cranks Up the Sexual Tension Between Teddy and Cass
Thursday's episode of Grey's Anatomy might have been titled 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' — and thanks for getting U2 stuck in our heads! — but it sure looked like Teddy had happened upon something for which she didn't even realize that she'd been searching: Cass. The chemistry between the doctors, only one of whose marriages is the open sort, was off the charts. Did they decide that their one impromptu kiss wasn't enough? Read on… TWO COUPLES CLASHED | As the episode began, Richard sided with Meredith that the transplant committee needed to be informed that Evynn's wife Tasha had Alzheimer's. Nick, on the other hand, was all for proceeding with the surgery. 'At least one of you is fighting for your patient,' Evynn cracked. Once Mer was alone with her significant other, she floated the idea that when Nick looked at Tasha, he saw a possible future version of her. But was that really the case? TBD. More from TVLine American Idol Contestant Stuns Lionel Richie With 'the Longest Run I've Ever Heard in My Life' (Exclusive Video) Survivor 48's Tribe Swap Set the Stage for Another Juicy Blindside Abbott Elementary: [Spoiler] Just Got Fired After School Audit - Who Should Replace Them? At the same time, Bailey and Ben treated a librarian named Lisa who also needed a liver transplant. Though Miranda warned her husband to follow her instructions to the letter — his evaluations as an intern weren't looking too hot — he couldn't help himself. He even went so far as to offer to answer any questions that the transplant committee had about who should get the liver. 'If I can help someone, I'm gonna do it,' Ben told his missus afterwards, 'and hope my boss can see that.' TWO RELATIONSHIPS WERE TESTED | After Molly suffered a grand mal seizure, Blue conspired with Lucas to get Amelia to consult on her case. When the neuro goddess realized what the residents were up to, all she did was scold them about the proper way to sneak patients into her department. (Go, Amelia! Go!) Ultimately, she recommended surgery, which was of no interest to Molly… until the amnesiac read about experimental add-ons that might restore her memory. While Nora kept texting Owen, Cass showed up at Grey Sloan for her husband's colonoscopy or 'harsh lighting and free coffee' or… something more? Sparks flew between her and Teddy. But when Altman invited Cass to a spa day to thank her for making her hospital-endowment slideshow, Beckman turned her down. 'I'm trying to respect your boundaries,' she said. 'When you figure it out, you let me know.' At EOD, both Owen and Teddy confessed that they'd been tempted and were unsure where they went from there. … AND THAT WAS THAT | After hearing from Simone about her grandma who has Alzheimer's, Nick had a stroke of genius: They could give Tasha two-thirds of the available liver and Lisa the rest, thus saving them both. 'What the hell are we waiting for?' cried Bailey. 'Let's go give everybody livers.' Before the gang clocked out for the day, Richard forgave Meredith for keeping Catherine's condition from him. He finally recognized that Grey had done the best that she could under the circumstances. Back in his and Mer's hotel room, Nick wanted to make something clear to his partner. He hadn't seen her in Tasha, 'I saw myself in Evynn. You just gotta know that if I were in her position, I wouldn't stop fighting for you.' Neither would Mer stop fighting for Nick, she said. OMG, 'I think we just agreed on something.' That's gotta be a first for these two, no? 15 TV Pairs That Need to Couple Up View List What did you think of Thursday's episode? Drop your reviews, comments, criticisms below. Best of TVLine Mrs. Maisel Flash-Forward List: All of Season 5's Futuristic Easter Eggs Yellowjackets Recap: The Morning After Yellowjackets Recap: The First Supper
