Why ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Alum Sarah Drew Would ‘Never’ Rule Out a Return as April Kepner
usmagazine.comOnce a doctor, always a doctor. Sarah Drew made it clear that her season 17 appearance on Grey’s Anatomy as Dr.
April Kepner might not have been her final bow.“Absolutely,” Drew, 41, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published on Saturday, March 5, while promoting her Lifetime movie Stolen by Their Father.The Cruel Summer star last visited Grey Sloan Memorial briefly ahead of costar Jesse Williams‘ exit in 2021.
His character, Dr. Jackson Avery, and April had divorced years earlier. Fresh off a breakup with paramedic Matthew Taylor (Justin Bruening), April and Jackson moved to Boston together with their daughter.
It wasn’t just a happy ending for the fictional doctors.“It was a beautiful experience. It felt so warm, welcoming,” Drew recalled. “It felt like a full-circle moment of closing my story in a way that I didn’t honestly know I needed.”Though she is not set to guest star in season 18, which is currently airing on ABC, the Christmas Pen Pals actress wouldn’t turn down a role for next year — should Shondaland offer it to her.
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