Ellen Pompeo & Patrick Dempsey Go 'Greys'

Ellen Pompeo and co-star Patrick Dempsy walk around on the set of Grey’s Anatomy on a rainy afternoon on Sunday (January 17) in Los Angeles.

Patrick recently shared about the developments between his character and Ellen‘s character with USA Today. “I think this is probably the first season where I’m really happy with the direction the character’s going,” he says. “We couldn’t get past the ‘Are they together? Are they not?’ for so long. In episodic TV, that’s sometimes the cross you bear.”

“I couldn’t find any other way to look longingly at Meredith [Ellen Pompeo],” he says. “It’s nice to be moving forward. It was fun initially – like for the first few years. Then we kind of got stuck in that and I think everybody got frustrated.”