Sandra Oh, who is known as Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy, is casting doubt on the idea of Cristina Yang’s return. Oh talked up on the negative affects Grey’s Anatomy fame had on her after she began on the ABC medical drama in 2005. The stress of Cristina’s quick climb to superstardom drove Oh to face her own real-life medical concerns.
“When Grey’s Anatomy came — my life changed very much,” the 12-time Emmy nominee explained after Ho-yeon Squid game star ,who also experienced overnight success on the 2021 Korean-language Netflix hit, asked her advice for navigating fame. “Honestly, I got sick. I think my whole body was very, very sick. Even though you keep on working, right? It’s just like, ‘Oh, I can’t sleep. Oh, my back hurts. I don’t know what’s wrong with my skin.’”
Ultimately, the Killing Eve star learned that she “had to take care of” her health — both mental and physical — before anything else, and advised Ho-yeon to do the same. “Because you can’t ultimately depend on anyone else,” she added of finding peace in the spotlight.
This isn’t the first time Oh has spoken up against Grey’s Anatomy’s mental health consequences. Willie Geist noted in a virtual August 2021 Sunday Today interview that her ten years as a leading lady on one of television’s most popular series “was terrible” at times. “The reason I say that is because the conditions you need to do your work in require a lot of seclusion,” she explained. “So, when you lose your anonymity, you have to develop techniques to keep trying to be real.”
Oh went on to describe how he went from “not being able to go out, like hiding in restaurants,” to eventually learning to “manage attention, control expectation, while maintaining a sense of self.”.
Though she’s offered conflicting responses since leaving Grey’s in 2014, it appears like a return to Grey Sloan Memorial is one of the things she’s saying no to for the time being, stating that she’s “moved on” during an edition of the Los Angeles Times’ Asian Enough podcast in May 2021. “It’s rare, I’d think, to be able to see a character’s impact in such a way.” “You perform your work like a bubble and then let it go,” she explained. “I almost left that show seven years ago, my God.” So it’s no longer there in my head. But it’s still very much alive for a lot of people. And, while I appreciate and understand it, I have moved on.
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