Chrandra Wilson recalled one of her final audition days for 'Grey's Anatomy' in the early 2000s while attending D23 on Aug. 10. The actress shared that she visited Universal Studios and went on rides at the theme park between her audition sessions.
JP Mangalindan is a Senior Writer for TV at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in May 2023. JP's work has previously appeared in publications likeThe actress, 54, shared during a panel at the Disney fan event D23 on Sunday, Aug. 11, that she went on rides at Universal Studios during a five-hour break between her audition for the production studio and her audition for the network.
"There was like five hours between , so I went to Universal Studios and... rode some rides," she confessed, prompting the audience to roar with laughter.It must have been a good choice because although Wilson said that the original description for the character of Dr. Bailey was a "short, white blonde female," she got the part and has played the surgeon since the pilot episode of the show aired on March 27, 2005.
She said she listened to that advice and also channeled her mother, who was a teacher, when performing the audition monologue, which was a scene in the pilot where then-chief resident Dr. Bailey listed her "five rules" for her intern class.alum lived in New York at the time and said she went back to the city thinking that if nothing else she got to enjoy a theme park.came in 2010 for a season 6 episode.
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