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Surgery Secrets with Grey's Anatomy's Camilla Luddington

Surgery Secrets with Grey's Anatomy's Camilla Luddington

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The YH Studio welcomes back the lovely Camilla Luddington, who stops by to tell us what she's learned during her stint on ABC's long-running medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" and what dream guest star she'd love to see make an appearance! She also explains why she loves Instagram over all other social media platforms, plus she reveals what job she would have if she'd never become an actor!

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Young Hollywood

If you could have anyone guest star on Grey's Anatomy, who would it be?

Camilla Luddington

Anyone. Oh my god, that's amazing. Obviously, you. What will- I I I- that's a lie. That's such a lie. And you could be killed in the first ten minutes.

Young Hollywood

Hang on. If I'm going to be on it, can't I be recurring or a series regular? I'm dying within the first ten minutes. You're immediately dead.

Camilla Luddington

Hello.

Young Hollywood

I'm here on the Anglian sofa with the gorgeous Camilla Luddington. Hello.

Camilla Luddington

Hi. Back finally. Back again. Thanks for inviting me.

Young Hollywood

Back again like. Yeah. Years like you're 21 now.

Camilla Luddington

I'm 23. I'm 20, finally I can drink.

Young Hollywood

21, you can drink. Well, you could anyway, cuz 18 in England. Yes, it's not here, but thank God. 21 years old. Yeah. And you haven't lost your accent.

Camilla Luddington

It's going. I don't think it is. Don't you think so? No.

Young Hollywood

A little bit. Which is great, because so many of my British friends that live in L. A. now, come here for like six months and they're already. They're like, oh my god. I'm so hot right now. You haven't lost yours either, though.

Camilla Luddington

No, I haven't. No, no. Hanging on to it. Gripping on to it. Gripping on. For dear life. It's the only thing that makes me different.

Young Hollywood

That's it. That's it. It's an British shows go a long time. 30 years. But the American culture is brutal.

Camilla Luddington

No. Just acts. I know. 12 years and our ratings are still amazing. Yeah. I have to say that just because I'm so proud of it, all 12 seasons.

Young Hollywood

You should be. You should be. You should be. I'm not just saying this, but this finale might be one of my favorite episodes. I think it's so clever. No, I'm serious. I'm not just I'm not just saying that. Really. Honestly.

Camilla Luddington

It sounds like hours of media training before she came in. No, I'm being serious.

Young Hollywood

Okay, okay. It's crazy.

Camilla Luddington

It really is. Yeah, it really is. I I think before this, one of my favorite things was Alex and Joe in one episode in my first season got absolutely faced. And that was really fun. All these shows, obviously, people guest star and coming in and out. If you could have anyone guest star on Grey's Anatomy, who would it be?

Young Hollywood

Anyone. Oh my god, that's amazing. Obviously, you. What will- I I I- that's a lie. That's such a lie. And you could be killed in the first ten minutes.

Camilla Luddington

Hang on. If I'm going to be on it, can't I be recurring or a series regular? I'm dying within the first ten minutes.

Young Hollywood

You're immediately dead. Like, a like a you dead person. Like you'd already be dead on arrival.

Camilla Luddington

This is not going to show off my acting chops, thank you. I'm a mute dead person.

Young Hollywood

Yes, sorry. Not really saving you. Who would I like, honestly?

Camilla Luddington

Who would you like? Who would I like? I would say someone like Tom Hanks, because you know what, Tom Hanks is amazing, but he also has a reputation for being really nice.

Young Hollywood

Right, right. So you want someone that's like going to bring some good energy with them. Okay. Okay. I like that, too. Tom Hanks could do it.

Camilla Luddington

Totally. I I think if the producers hit him up and was like, you know, Tom, we're on season 12 now. Don't come on.

Young Hollywood

Do you consider yourself to be somewhat of a doctor now? Like if you have you started being like healthy, you know, all the cures, you know, this, you like, you're telling your friends.

Camilla Luddington

Yeah. No, I think it's only I was actually just talking about this earlier with someone. I think it's made me way more paranoid. Because now I feel like I'm learning everything that could possibly go wrong at any point. So it's like a paper cut, I'm like, oh my god. Oh my god.

Young Hollywood

You're dying. You're dying. It's infected.

Camilla Luddington

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's made me more paranoid. But no smarter, probably.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Is there one thing that you've learned from it that you never thought you'd know before? Like when you came on to the show, something that like I mean, I always think of doctors, they know these really long words.

Camilla Luddington

I mean, I do know some you know what's funny is in one of my first episodes, I did an appendectomy, which is like removing the appendix.

Young Hollywood

You lost me already.

Camilla Luddington

It's removing your appendix. And I think that if you, let's say, had, you know, needed one right now. Right. I might be able to do it.

Young Hollywood

Really?

Camilla Luddington

I kind of remember how to do it.

Young Hollywood

Well, it's a coincidence because I have an appendectomy. Appendectomy. I got it right. I got it right. And what would that entail?

Camilla Luddington

It's cutting you right here. It's right here. You're going right there. Okay. And then you have to seal off something and cut it off and do a little twisty knot. These are the-

Young Hollywood

Hang on. Sorry. Let's just clarify. You started this by saying you thought you could do it. If you do ever operate on someone, maybe stay quiet.

Camilla Luddington

I will. Because I'll just be so into it.

Young Hollywood

Right. Because if you start even saying the things like, I'm going to twist it, I'm going to do this, it just doesn't work. Georgie's even worried right now. She's like, I don't trust this girl. I don't trust this girl. I don't trust this girl. Yeah. Don't do anything. Stay there. Stay there, Georgie. It's fine. She's just acting. She's not a doctor. Wow. She does seem suspicious.

Camilla Luddington

Well, wouldn't you? Yeah, I would. Yeah, exactly.

Young Hollywood

And we're just we're going to discover some stuff about you. Okay, go for it. Favorite social media platform and why?

Camilla Luddington

Instagram. Why? Because I feel like there's I feel like Twitter, it takes me more time to think of what I want to say, and I think you can just post a picture on there.

Young Hollywood

So you're more expressive with photos and not words.

Camilla Luddington

Visual, what do I say? Yeah, I'm not I have not started Snapchat, but I keep getting asked to do it.

Young Hollywood

I haven't done Snapchat either. I haven't done Snapchat either. I feel like it could get overwhelming. Have you done Face Swap yet?

Camilla Luddington

No.

Young Hollywood

Oh, Face Swap's disturbing. Oh my god, it's a whole new world.

Camilla Luddington

I've seen it though, but I haven't done it.

Young Hollywood

Okay, we might have to do that. Okay. What is uh, what's on your Netflix watch list?

Camilla Luddington

I I spoke about Netflix, obviously, that I I do it too much. Oh man. Well, fun Netflix, probably Orange Is the New Black.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Okay. Still not done that either, which is terrible. You haven't. We have so many other casts in here. It's so good. Yeah. So good. What's a mobile app that you can't live without?

Camilla Luddington

God, a mobile app I can't live without. I guess Facebook, actually.

Young Hollywood

Really? Because my Facebook's very private, so it's not like. Cuz I was going to say I wouldn't have thought you'd be on Facebook cuz you'll get loads of stalkers. I'm private on Facebook. I would have totally stalked you if I was on Facebook. Do you have a different name?

Camilla Luddington

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What is it?

Camilla Luddington

Don't worry about it.

Young Hollywood

Oliver. Give us a clue. No. Does it begin with C? No. Does it begin with D? I'm not. Um, go through the whole thing. If you could remake any TV show or movie. Remake any TV show or movie. Any TV show or movie. What would it be?

Camilla Luddington

This is hard because like, I love The Goonies.

Young Hollywood

No one said it's going to be easy.

Camilla Luddington

The Goonies is my favorite movie. I love The Goonies. That's my favorite The Goonies and Princess Bride.

Young Hollywood

You can't. Yeah, I do like Princess Bride too, but Goonies is amazing, but I don't feel like you can't remake. I think they are remaking it. The Goonies?

Camilla Luddington

Yeah. Yeah, they're remaking it. Really?

Young Hollywood

Yeah. True story. Oh man. What would you have been if you wasn't an actor?

Camilla Luddington

I would have been a ghost hunter. I'm serious, because I will I'm serious. I watch those shows where they go in and they like find ghosts and they talk to them. And I think I would have been pretty good at it.

Young Hollywood

Have you done that? Have you tried it?

Camilla Luddington

No, because I'm also scared of ghosts. Okay. So I wouldn't want to summon it unless you know.

Young Hollywood

So you would be a great ghost hunter because you're scared of ghosts.

Camilla Luddington

If I got paid to do it, I would do it. I would go in. Okay. Yeah. So it's all about money.

Young Hollywood

100%. So basically do it if you're paid. Okay, great. Good stuff. Good stuff. What's a fashion item that you can't live without?

Camilla Luddington

I love actually, I'm wearing silver today. I usually wear gold. I love simple gold rings. Okay. That's good. I wear it with almost everything.

Young Hollywood

Gold rings. Gold rings with almost everything. I feel like they go with gold. I'm like a magpie. Like if it's shiny and gold. And the last two questions, it's all about money and if it's shiny and gold.

Camilla Luddington

You have the wrong impression.

Young Hollywood

Well, you're giving it. You're giving it. I'm only asking the questions. You're delivering the answers.

Camilla Luddington

That's all I can do.

Young Hollywood

Um, what is something that you've discovered this week?

Camilla Luddington

I discovered this week what happens to Jon Snow. Oh, I don't know. You can't tell me. I'm not going to tell you. Okay, you can't tell me. But I'm still recovering. You should learn something every day. Make you. I'm still recovering from Game of Thrones. Okay. You don't know you haven't seen it yet. It kind of does it. You haven't seen it.

Young Hollywood

I haven't seen it. Okay. I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. What? 12 seasons of Grey's Anatomy to catch up on. Did you watch all 12? All 12 seasons. Really? That was a lie. Yeah. You have you though? You good little doctor.

Camilla Luddington

Thanks. I like it. I try.

Camilla Luddington

Even in house. I actually really love that lot. Do you? Yeah, because it's one of my favorite sets. Like when you go in there, they they got this is super girly, but they got a bunch of stuff off Pinterest. And so there's like lots of little cute nooks and crannies to it. So I like it.

Young Hollywood

Nooks and crannies. Haven't heard that for so long. Is that English? I think so. Do Americans say nooks and crannies? Oh, they do. Well, we obviously created it first. Obviously. We're British. We create everything.

Camilla Luddington

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Grey's Anatomy. 12 seasons.

Camilla Luddington

12 seasons.

Young Hollywood

How many episodes? Yeah. How many episodes can we watch you in? Cuz I'm going to then.

Camilla Luddington

Over a hundred.

Young Hollywood

100 episodes, which is I'm not going to do the math. I was going to try and work out minutes including commercial breaks. It's a lot. I've learned today that you're terrible at math.

Camilla Luddington

Uh, 2 * 2 is 4, 4 * 4 is 16, 5 * 5 is 25, 6 * 6 is 36, 7 * 7 is 49. Who's bad at math now?

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Camilla Luddington

    Interview subject, discusses her role on Grey's Anatomy

  • Alex

    Character mentioned from Grey's Anatomy

  • Joe

    Character mentioned from Grey's Anatomy

  • Tom Hanks

    Camilla Luddington's dream guest star for Grey's Anatomy

  • Georgie

    Someone mentioned by the interviewer

  • Jon Snow

    Character from Game of Thrones whose fate was discussed

FAQ

What show does Camilla Luddington currently star in?+
Camilla Luddington stars in the long-running ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy".
Who would Camilla Luddington like to see guest star on Grey's Anatomy?+
Camilla Luddington would like to see Tom Hanks guest star on Grey's Anatomy because he is amazing and has a reputation for being nice.
How has being on Grey's Anatomy affected Camilla Luddington?+
Camilla Luddington says being on Grey's Anatomy has made her more paranoid about things that could go wrong with the human body.
What is Camilla Luddington's favorite social media platform?+
Camilla Luddington's favorite social media platform is Instagram because she finds it easier to post pictures and be visually expressive.
What would Camilla Luddington have been if she wasn't an actress?+
If she wasn't an actress, Camilla Luddington would have been a ghost hunter, as she enjoys watching shows about them and thinks she'd be good at it if paid.
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