Taking off your director's hat for a moment and speaking as an actor on the show, what can you preview for what's at stake with the show's return? The instant I read it, I was like, "I know this story. I don't know exactly how I'm going to do with it, but immediately I have ideas." It's about, can I hear the music in it? Does it make sense to me? And fortunately, Rochelle Zimmerman and Leah Gonzalez wrote this fantastic script. Give someone else a shot." Of course, I never actually made that call, but you have those thoughts where I was like, "I want the episode now because I want to know what's going on." But the thing with me is, it's not about the amount of stuff I have to do. My nerves were a month and a half, two months before. Were there any nerves about juggling the various storylines?įortunately, no. This is quite a packed episode to plant your flag as a director. I was like, "So I will be doing this again."
I wanted to do such a good job that everybody understood, unquestionably, "He earned his next shot at directing." I breathed a lot easier when I heard their response, when I got their feedback. Whatever my position was at Station 19, I understand that may be part of what got me a shot, but I wanted to kill it. Keeping the job should be about you actually doing a good job. Whatever gets you the job gets you the job. My joke is always that I have no problem with nepotism if it gets you the job, whether it's you being the boss' kid or you went to the same college, that's fine. I didn't want to let Stacey and Krista and Paris and all my other mentors down. They gave me the shot and I tried to run with it as best I could. She said, "You know what? I know you were going to do your own things, but let's just skip to the chase and let's do this." She believed in me and Krista Vernoff believed in me, I think, more than I did at some points. Black came in as our producing director this season because she's directed multiple episodes over the course of the life of Station 19, and I adore her. I was having to gear up to do some projects of my own to try and see what I had to say as a director behind the camera. And then COVID hit, so that got put on the back-burner. I started shadowing directors off and on, on different shows, and even shows that I wasn't on. She'd worked with me towards directing, but then the show got canceled and that opportunity never came. I did a sitcom a million years ago and shadowed the director on that show, Mary Lou Belli. I thought I couldn't love them more, but it turns out I did."Īhead of the episode, George spoke to ET about how the opportunity came to be, what he learned the most about directing and what awaits the Station 19 crew as they navigate uncharted territory - both personally and professionally.ĮT: How did the opportunity to direct this episode of Station 19 come about? That literally got me a little teary and surprised me, that I would feel differently about them.
The one thing that truly, truly surprised me was how much more I would love my cast and crew when I finished directing. But then being the director of the episode and having them support me in a whole different way, that was the one thing that surprised me the most," the longtime Grey's-Station 19 actor told ET ahead of his directorial debut. "I knew a lot of what I didn't know, so I knew where I'd be scrambling to keep up. "I'm just excited that I got to enjoy my Station 19 family from a whole different angle. In 2002, George had a role in Clockstoppers, a film directed by Jonathan Frakes.For George, putting on his director's hat for the first time has been a long time coming. In 1996, George was cast as lifeguard Michael Bourne on the soap opera Sunset Beach, a role which he played from the series' first episode on Januuntil its end on December 31, 1999. George graduated from the University of Virginia in 1994 with a double major in Rhetoric and Communication Studies and Drama. He has also appeared on many ABC series, such as What About Brian, Eli Stone, Eastwick, Off the Map, Grey's Anatomy, and guest starred on Castle and Desperate Housewives. Jason Winston George (born February 9, 1972, Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American actor and model He is best known for his roles as Michael Bourne on the NBC daytime soap opera Sunset Beach, and as J.T.
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