Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Washington, Summer Jobs and Cupcakes
by Carita Rizzo (Source)
June 11, 2007

We caught up with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who played
Denny on Grey's Anatomy over the weekend, at the 18th
annual A Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival in L.A.

Sponsored by Disney, it's a benefit for the Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Celebrities volunteer their
time in carnival-style game booths including an
enchanted castle and the pirate ship from Pirates of the
Caribbean. Jeffrey was happy to talk about what he's been
doing this summer, what Isaiah Washington told him
about leaving Grey's and his special flair for icing
cupcakes.


TV GUIDE: What brings you here today?
Jeffrey Dean Morgan: The event and the cause.

TV GUIDE: Do you have a serious job here that you're doing?
JDM: Here? Yeah, I am decorating cupcakes. That's my serious job.

TV GUIDE: Have you been practicing?
JDM: I did. I got some frosting yesterday and decorated my dog's head and she looks
great, so yeah, I did a little bit of practicing.

TV GUIDE: So what have you been doing for work?
JDM: I've just finished three movies so I've been off for about a week.

TV GUIDE: What are the movies?
JDM: I did PS. I Love You with Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler and The Accidental
Husband was me and Uma Thurman, and I just finished a movie called Days of
Wrath with Laurence Fishburne — a big ensemble cast on that one.

TV GUIDE: And on Grey's you keep coming back from the dead.
JDM: I can see myself doing Grey's from the other side. They can bring back me and
Kyle Chandler once a year to do a little thing.

TV GUIDE: Was that a fun episode to do?
JDM: I had so much fun. I mean, I love those guys, I love all of them and meeting Kyle
and working with him was especially fun because we have the same kind of sick sense
of humor so we had a really good time shooting that.

TV GUIDE: What was your reaction to Isaiah getting fired?
JDM: Oddly enough, I ran into him the day it happened at a restaurant and you know
what, he's fine. He's not angry, he's not mad and he's going to be OK.

TV GUIDE: So when he said he was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore,
that was really just a TV quote?

JDM: Yes. It was. Because I think he's already got some other opportunities and he's
going to be fine.

TV GUIDE: Did he say anything to you about leaving the show?
JDM: We talked about it. I think it's a little bit of a disappointment even though he
didn't say that, but he's fielding offers already from every network so I have no doubt
that everything will be fine and Grey's Anatomy will move on just fine without him
and whatever he ends up doing will be great.

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