Once upon a time, Shonda Rhimes had an extremely various vision of Miranda Bailey.
Bailey, played by Chandra Wilson, has actually ruled over Grey’s Anatomy since the pilot, when Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and her fellow interns discovered to be extremely scared of the female individuals called the “nazi.” In a brand-new Black History Month interview with Good Morning America, Wilson and executive manufacturer Zoanne Clack remembered the audition procedure and the reality that initially, Bailey was “a tiny blonde with curls who was underestimated.” She was in fact the only character with a defined ethnic culture in the script, however Wilson won the function
“I wasn’t ‘ingénue.’ I didn’t have whatever that look was, and casting always likes to give you a type,” she stated. “I was always the thing that they called ‘non-traditional casting,’ so I would just go in for anything and just say, ‘I know that the role says this, but let me show you how I would do this,’ and see if that’s OK.”
Wilson included that she understood she never ever suit, so she “never cared.”
“I was just like, ‘I know you’re looking for her, but here, how about this?'” she described.
