Ellen Pompeo says she attacked Denzel Washington on the set of Grey’s Anatomy

Back for Grey’s Anatomytwelfth season of, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington led by guests an episode of the Shonda Rhtimes medical drama. This week on Ellen Pompeo’s “Tell Me” Podcast, she talks to the old man Grey’s Star Patrick dempsey about her experience working with Washington on the episode, and she wholeheartedly admits having had a screaming match with him when he – that’s right – directed her.

Pompeo of course put the “Gray” in Grey’s Anatomy, playing Meredith Gray for the entire 16 years of the series. During the filming of 2016’s Washington-helmed “Sound Of Silence ”episodePompeo says she took the liberty of improvising the line, “Watch me when you apologize. Watch me,” when you play an intense scene with another actor.

During the podcast episode, she tells Dempsey, “We like actors who make the right choices?” But apparently, as a director, Washington wasn’t impressed with her off-script moment. “Denzel became HAM on my ass, ”she said. “He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t tell him what to do.

to which she said, “Look, motherfucker, this is my show. This is my set. Who are you telling? As if you hardly know where the bathroom is. Which is daring to say the least.

The two, of course, didn’t speak to each other for a while. Pompeo says she even went to see Washington’s wife, actress Pauletta Pearson, and told her Washington yelled at her and Pompeo wasn’t “okay with it.” with him.”

However, in the end, Pompeo says she considers theirsettle the dispute the force behind the sur“magic” screen. This is where you get the good stuff, ”she says.

She says she and Washington have since fixed things up and that she has the “greatest” respect for him as an actor and director, but “yo, we went there one day.”

The 18th season of Grey’s Anatomy (yes, it’s still on) premieres tonight on ABC.