Patrick Dempsey ‘Fuming’ after Ellen Pompeo had hit him on podcast
Pompeo, who since the debut of the show Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital Dr. Meredith Gray played the headlines when she negotiated a huge contract of $ 20 million a year in 2017 to continue the role, making it one of the best -paid actresses of television.
However, that was not always the case. When Gray’s Anatomy Debuted in 2005, Dempsey, that Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd portrayed, was already a well-known actor with an established Hollywood CV.
Pompeo was relatively new in the industry, and their salary reflected that. The original salary of Dempsey was $ 350,000 per episode, while Pompeo fell around $ 200,000 per episode.
Apparently it is still a painful topic for Pompeo, which recently Call me daddy Podcast: “Because I was the namesake of the show, I earned the same (wages) and that was harder to get.”
The star said she hadn’t held it against Dempsey and explained: “He was a bigger star than at that moment. Everyone knew who he was, so he earned the money.
“I was not salt that he got what he received, I was salt that they didn’t appreciate me as much as they appreciated, and they will never do that.”
