Exclusive: Jason George on his return to Grey’s Anatomy as a Series Regular
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales recently spoke with Jason George on his return to Grey's Anatomy as a series regular.
George has been on Grey’s Anatomy since Season 6 as Ben Warren. He was a series regular from S12-S14 before leaving to help launch spinoff Station 19. For the past seven seasons, George was a series regular on the firefighter drama while making frequent guest appearances on the mothership series.
Ben’s Season 7 storyline on Station 19 had him tapping more and more into his medical skills while questioning his future as a firefighter in light of his shoulder injury, setting up a potential return to Grey Sloan. It culminated in the Station 19 series finale, in which Ben told Captain Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz) that he was going back to finish his surgical residency. (In 2017, as a fifth year resident at Grey Sloan, Ben found a way to explore a dream second career as a firefighter without jeopardizing his chances at going back one day should he choose to do so.)
Of course, Ben always has had a personal connection to Grey Sloan through his marriage to Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), which was revisited with one final crossover in the Grey’s Anatomy Season 20 finale.
When Jason isn’t working he’s heavily involved in Gun Violence prevention, Social justice, Pediatric Cancer and the Labor movement. Jason sits on the board of SAGAFTRA and he chairs a bunch of committees and was on the negotiating committee for pretty much every primetime TV/theatrical film collective bargaining agreement for the last 23 years.
