Jeffrey Dean Morgan tells Katherine Heigl he cant rewatch Dennys Greys Anatomy death scene: Makes me cry

Paging Dr.Nostalgia.

Katherine Heigl and Jeffrey Dean Morgan recently reunited virtually to celebrate 20 years of Shondaland and playing Izzie Stevens and Denny Duquette on “Grey’s Anatomy.”In the second season of the Shonda Rhimes-created hit medical drama, Izzie, a resident, begins a relationship with a patient, Denny, who later dies in a heartbreaking sequence.“I can’t rewatch it,” Morgan, 58, admitted of his character’s ending in the Season 2 finale, which aired in May 2006.“It makes me cry.

One, because it was so awesome, and two, it was f–king incredibly sad to watch.”He added, “I don’t see myself in there, which I take is a good sign, if I can watch myself acting and not see myself.And I never did, working with Heigl and having Shonda’s words.

That’s pretty special.”“I remember that scene when Denny died, how stressed out I was to perform that and just wanting to give it my absolute best and really try not to chew the scenery and try not to make it overly melodramatic, but to really hit that grief honestly,” Heigl, 46, recalled.“I put all this pressure on myself to do that well.

I was sitting alone a lot, listening to really sad music, thinking about my dead brother, which was fun.”“I didn’t have to do anything, obviously.I was dead,” Morgan quipped.“But I remember having so much empathy for what you were going through because it was rough,” he continued.

“And you had to sit there and cry, and they wanted to shoot it 900 different ways to Sunday.So you cried for a good 15 hours that day.”Despite the pain of filming, Morgan confessed, “It’s one of my favorite scenes.

You were so good.”Heigl echoed her co-star’s sentiments, gushing, “You were so good.You made it very easy to do.”“One of my favorite things about Shonda as a writer is how beautifully she does these tortured love stories.

And I feel like that was Denny and Izzie, it was doomed from the start,” she said.“And being able to...