SPOILER ALERT! This publish accommodates particulars from Thursday night time’s episode of Gray’s Anatomy.
Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) lastly let curiosity get the very best of her in Thursday night time’s episode of Gray’s Anatomy, however her long-anticipated tryst with Cass Beckman (Sophia Bush) won’t have gone the way in which audiences anticipated.
Final week, Teddy and Owen (Kevin McKidd) agreed to open up their marriage, which has been on the rocks currently, as each of them have additionally had their eye on different individuals. In Episode 613, titled “Don’t You (Overlook About Me),” Teddy is introduced with a chance to behave on her lingering chemistry with Cass sooner than she anticipated when she runs into her at a medical convention.
However as soon as she does, she shortly realizes that this gained’t assist her save her marriage. Cass takes the rejection surprisingly effectively, which Bush tells Deadline is “actually refreshing to simply see mature relationships and wholesome communication be modeled” including that “not every part needs to be like a knock down, drag out drama battle.”
In actual fact, she’s unsure the purpose of the story was ever to introduce a brand new, long-term love curiosity for Teddy within the first place, however somewhat to ask some robust questions on need and achievement, particularly for ladies, later in life.
“I feel there’s a purpose that so many ladies in midlife are saying, ‘Maintain on, I purchased the farm. I did the factor. I checked every part off the record that some guide instructed me to, and I’m not pleased. I don’t truly need this. I don’t really feel pleasure on this iteration of this life that I’ve constructed,’” Bush says. “It does really feel actually cool to have the ability to have conversations about that within the area of a sequence like this.”
Gray’s Anatomy beforehand revealed that Teddy is bisexual, and she or he had a romantic relationship together with her pal Allison effectively earlier than her time at Gray Sloan. Nevertheless, that is the primary time that Teddy is de facto evaluating her marriage with Owen by asking herself whether or not a monogamous, heterosexual relationship is sufficient.
And, to be able to discover a solution, she wanted somebody like Cass, who approached their reference to clear boundaries however no judgment or expectation, Bush explains.
“I feel that the size of time the followers of this present have been with [Teddy] on this journey permits this story to be greater. In a method, it permits the inquiries to be a lot deeper. It’s not nearly two individuals being attracted to one another,” Bush says. “It’s about the place does your final achievement lie? And is love sufficient?”
As for what this may imply for future appearances from Bush, she tells Deadline: “I don’t actually know.”
She continued: “However one of many issues that I really like about it’s there’s no judgment between them, and I feel there’s such a real fondness there…so who is aware of.”
