00:00Si je demande les gens de regarder quelque chose, c'est pour une bonne raison
00:03et qu'ils peuvent complètement oublier de Meredith Grey et je ne vais pas perdre leur temps.
00:09On a discuté avec Hélène Pompeo à l'occasion de la sortie de Good American Family,
00:13une série qui retrace l'histoire vraie de Natalia Grace, une petite fille de 6 ans
00:16qui a été accusée par ses parents adoptifs d'être une naine sociopathe de 30 ans.
00:30Et beaucoup de gens m'ont parlé de ça, donc j'ai entendu beaucoup de gens m'ont dit qu'ils ont regardé ça.
00:36Je ne dis pas, mais beaucoup de gens m'ont regardé ça et me demandent si j'ai vu.
00:41Je ne suis pas très intéressé à regarder ça, parce que j'ai entendu parler de tout le monde,
00:49donc je ne sais pas, je ne sais pas, je ne sais pas, je ne sais pas beaucoup de TV en même temps,
00:55mais je vais regarder des shows quand ils viennent.
00:58What is a Good American Family and why was this title chosen?
01:01It's interesting because so many people think if they're Christian, they're good,
01:08they hold these beliefs that they're a good American family.
01:12They go to church, but, you know, again, we have to question why do we believe we're good?
01:17What do we believe makes us good or not?
01:21And that's perspective.
01:23We can both watch the same thing and believe something completely different.
01:27And that's the themes that we're exploring in this show.
01:30Is the pressure of playing a new role more intense when you've played a cult role?
01:35Yes, of course. Yes, of course.
01:37I have to, you know, my audience has seen me as one thing for 20 years.
01:42I've done one thing for 20 years.
01:44So I put, of course, an immense amount of pressure on being good in this role and not letting the fans down.
01:53If I'm asking people to watch something, that it's for a good reason and that they can completely forget about Meredith Grey and I'm not wasting their time.
02:03When you're a mother, is it easier or harder to play this kind of role?
02:06I think it's probably easier because, you know, when you become a mother, you have these really intense, passionate feelings, you know, towards your children.
02:16I think it's easier for an actor to understand, not that someone who isn't a mother couldn't understand.
02:21I think all women are maternal and have an instinct, whether you've given birth or not.
02:25I think women are born with some very specific maternal way about them.
02:30And that comes out in lots of different ways.
02:32You don't necessarily have to have children.
02:35You could have dogs.
02:35And you feel so passionately about them.
02:38So I think as women, we're very passionate creatures.
02:41And so I think that's what this role took, is passion.
02:45Extreme anger, extreme determination.
02:48A lot of women want to fix things, want everything to be perfect and believe that they are the ones who can make it perfect.
02:56Want to do things differently than how they were raised.
02:59A lot of people have been raised a certain way and that impacts the way they raise their children.
03:05And maybe they think they're doing something completely different.
03:07I know in Good American Family, our version of Christine Barnett, she believes she's raising her children completely different from the way her mother raised her.
03:16But she actually isn't.
03:17You know, we find out in the end that she's sort of doing the same thing.
03:21So I think that's interesting about, back to your first question of what people believe about themselves.
03:26We all have our different versions or opinions about what we're doing.
03:30And we always think we're doing the right thing most of the time.
03:33No, no, no.
03:34No, no.
03:34No, my oldest daughter, who is 15, she's seen some episodes, but my younger children, I would never show them this note.
03:42They'll maybe see it in a few years.
03:45With streaming now, we can watch everything.
03:47It doesn't really matter when it came out.
03:50The true story that you discovered in a series or a film that shocked you the most?
03:55I don't know.
03:56I would say on Grey's Anatomy, Meredith studies Alzheimer's.
04:01I realized, preparing for that storyline, that in the United States, they study female diseases in male mice.
04:10And so you can't possibly get the right results.
04:13But the scientists believe that female mice and the hormones in the female mice alter the results of the study.
04:19So they don't primarily, they study female diseases in male mice.
04:24And I thought that was really crazy.
04:27What do you miss most about shooting Grey's Anatomy?
04:29I think, if anything I miss about the show, is the early seasons of the show, or the first 12 years of the show, it was very character-driven show.
04:41There were very complex characters.
04:43Now the show is more a procedural-based.
04:47They don't write the characters the same way.
04:49It's more of a procedural.
04:51And so I think, if anything, I miss the way the show used to be written.
