Sarah Drew says she won’t write a Grey’s Anatomy episode

• Sarah Drew stars in Lifetime’s Reindeer Games Homecoming.
• Former Grey’s Anatomy cast member makes her screenwriting debut.
• She had the idea while working on the 2019 Lifetime film Twinkle All the Way.

Sarah Drew, who created and stars in Lifetime’s Reindeer Games Homecoming, revealed exclusively that she has no interest in subscribing to Grey’s Anatomy.

All by herself, Sarah Drew created a little holiday magic.

With Reindeer Games Homecoming, which premieres on Lifetime on November 12th, the former Grey’s Anatomy cast member makes her screenwriting debut.

Along with Justin Bruening, another former Grey’s cast member who also stars in the film, Sarah claimed to have had the idea while working on the 2019 Lifetime film Twinkle All the Way.

So she made the choice to discuss it with the film’s creators.

Sarah exclusively revealed, “I pitched it to them assuming that we would hire a writer and go into development or whatever.”

“After the pitch, they said, ‘Sarah, you know this world so clearly. We were watching the movie while you’re giving the pitch. Like, we see it. And you should just go home and buy [screenwriting software] Final Draft and write it yourself.'”

Even though it’s a difficult task for a novice screenwriter, Sarah proved she was up to the task by saying, “I went home and I bought Final Draft and I had my first draft of Reindeer Games in three weeks. I got so completely absorbed in it and it was so much fun. It’s such a delightful way to use the creative storytelling brain.”

And it’s obvious that Sarah has the bug for screenwriting.

She said, “I’m already pitching a true story that that was brought to me, actually.”

“I’ve been working on the outline and researching and talking to the person it’s about and the people in her life. I’ve been completely immersed in more writing projects since and I’m in the beginning stages of planning what our Christmas movie next year will be.”

One, though, we won’t find her penning: a Grey’s Anatomy episode.

On the medical drama from 2009 to 2018, the actress who played Dr. April Kepner said, “I’m really more interested in creating something from scratch.” “I’m not sure that I would want to leap into a writers’ room of a show that’s already going, at least at this moment. I’m having a lot of fun just crafting my own stuff. So yeah, that’s kind of where I’m at right now.”

Along with Jesse Williams, who plays her partner Jackson Avery, Sarah returned to Grey’s for a guest appearance in the season 18 finale earlier this year. Although she isn’t interested in developing her own storyline for the programme, Sarah does have an idea for another Japril return.

She remarked, “We know they’re content in Boston together, so that is fantastic news to me. “I would be interested in learning more about how they reconciled if there was anything further we wished to share about them. But doing so would mean travelling across time.”

Does she believe it is feasible?

She remarked, “We’ve done it before, why not?”

Lifetime will debut Reindeer Games Homecoming on November 12 at 8 p.m.

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