Chyler Leigh has a lot of love for her late costar, Eric Dane.
Months after Dane’s death at 53, his fellow Grey’s Anatomy alum is still sharing happy memories from their several seasons as on-again and off-again love interests, Lexie Grey and Mark Sloan. But along with all the joy, Leigh recently admitted to having one regret regarding her time with Dane.
Leigh told TV Insider that to this day, she is still “really bummed about” missing out on a reunion with Dane when they both returned for a season 17 dream sequence.
The infamous finale moment saw Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) hallucinate a picturesque beach meeting with Lexie and Mark while fighting for her life against COVID-19. But while they all appeared to be together on that beach, Leigh was actually miles away from her scene partners.
“We were filming all during Covid — actual Covid — and I was filming Supergirl in Vancouver,” Leigh explained. “I couldn’t go down to be there because I would have had to quarantine [for] two weeks coming back into Vancouver.”
Leigh said that since there wasn’t enough time for her to leave one set and quarantine for two weeks before filming her Grey’s return, she ended up shooting her scenes alone with a green screen.
“If there’s anything that I regret, it would be not having been able to do that,” Leigh shared.