Grey’s Anatomy star Camilla Luddington has revealed the scenes where her character met her birth mom were the “most difficult” she has had to shoot.
The actress stars as Dr. Josephine “Jo” Wilson, who grew up in foster care after being left at a fire station by her birth mother when she was a baby. But in Season 15 of the ABC medical drama, they were reunited in emotional scenes in which her mom Vicki explained that she had become pregnant with Jo after being raped.
Learning about her past had a huge impact on Jo, and she ended up becoming depressed and eventually seeking help.
Opening up on her Call It What It Is podcast, Luddington said the moving scenes were the hardest she’d had to film as Jo.
“The most difficult Jo scene for me to shoot was all the scenes with my mom, just because it had been a long time coming on the show and felt very emotional,” she said.
“I prepared for it… what was helpful was I had never worked with the actress (Michelle Forbes) before so it really did feel like meeting a new person, and kind of like, this sounds so actor-y, listening and responding.”
Luddington, 40, went on: “I just came into it very emotional to begin with because I felt emotional for Jo and then the actress was so great that it was very easy just to see where those scenes took us.”
Newsweek has contacted representatives for Luddington for comment.
British actor Luddington hosts the Call It What It Is podcast alongside her former Grey’s Anatomy co-star Jessica Capshaw. Capshaw played children’s doctor Arizona Robbins in the series but left the show in 2018.
In the latest episode, the pair also discussed their favorite Grey’s friendships, with Luddington saying that for her it was probably the relationship between Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh). “That has to be,” she said. She went on to say she also liked the friendship that Arizona formed with Dr. April Kepner (Sarah Drew).
“You and Sarah had some really funny… Arizona and April had some great moments together towards the end,” she said. “You are like the odd couple together a little bit.”
Luddington—who is a mom of two with her actor husband Matthew Alan—joined the hit medical series in 2012 in a recurring role, and then became a regular at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in 2013.
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