Kate Walsh on the end of 'Grey's Anatomy,' and why it's so hard to tell a joke in modern culture - Fox News

Kate Walsh was introduced arsenic Dr. Addison Montgomery to "Grey's Anatomy" viewers successful May 2005, and has since captivated fans with sporadic visits backmost to the show.

She originally returned past season, arsenic she was told the long-running ABC aesculapian play was coming to an extremity aft 18 seasons.

"I went backmost past play due to the fact that they were like, ‘This is the past season,’" she told Fox News Digital. "I was like, 'Call maine erstwhile it's the past play and I'll travel back. I privation it to beryllium truly special.'"

"It's not lo and behold - it's inactive going, but the penning is amended than ever. The storylines are incredible. This twelvemonth it's a truly almighty storyline for my quality - I'm truly into it, and I'm loving going backmost and forth," she said.

In summation to discussing her caller concern with Purina Tidy Cats, Kate Walsh discussed her clip connected "Grey's Anatomy" arsenic good arsenic however she views the existent drama world. (Purina Tidy Cats® )

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In presumption of erstwhile the amusement volition really telephone it quits? That, Walsh is unsure of. "This is simply a beloved show...Ellen's gonna beryllium benignant of exiting, and past she'll astir apt popular successful and retired I would imagine," she said of the recent departure of Ellen Pompeo, who has been the show's pb histrion since the beginning. 

"It's an unthinkable level to speech astir societal issues...I conscionable deliberation it keeps going due to the fact that fans emotion it and it's an infrastructure that works."

This season, Walsh's fictional character, an OB/GYN with a specialty successful neonatal surgery, is passionate astir the real-life overturn of Roe v. Wade, and however women's reproductive rights person been affected arsenic a result.

"When we were talking astir maine coming successful this season, we discussed this full storyline, and I was truly into it," Walsh said of returning again, for play 19.

Kate Walsh continues to play Dr. Addison Montgomery connected ABC's deed "Grey's Anatomy." (Liliane Lathan/ABC)

"Part of the magic of creation - whether it's large lit oregon television, oregon film, oregon coating - it connects us. That storytelling is much almighty than a batch of things you tin bash successful the backstage sector...It's a connector," she said.

Speaking of her arch this season, Walsh says, "It's truly important, I cognize for the show, to archer each sides to immoderate story. And to truly look astatine it from each antithetic angles. And person empathy and connection….I'm thrilled and blessed to beryllium participating."

"It's a brainsick clip successful the satellite and tons of alteration successful the culture, and civilian rights being taken distant from radical and I deliberation it's unthinkable to person a level to research it theatrically, you know?"

From 2007 to 2013, Walsh had her ain spinoff show, "Private Practice," which surrounded Dr. Montgomery's departure from Seattle and caller beingness successful Los Angeles.

"Private Practice" ran for 7 seasons, with Kate Walsh fronting the formed alongside Taye Diggs, Audra McDonald, Tim Daly, Pete Wilder, KaDee Strickland, Chris Lowell, Paul Adelstein, and Amy Brenneman. (Andrew Eccles/Disney General Entertainment Content)

In a caller interrogation with "Good Morning America," creator of "Grey's" and "Private Practice," Shonda Rhimes, alluded to having an involvement successful rebooting the second show.

"I really consciousness similar we didn't decorativeness telling our stories connected ‘Private Practice,’" she said. "We had truthful overmuch much to accidental with those characters."

While Walsh clarified she had not spoken with Rhimes connected the topic, she rapidly added, "The formed - we each inactive person a precise progressive WhatsApp chain. We're precise close. It's thing that, I - we'd besides emotion to do...I stake radical would privation to travel backmost and bash it."

Something that Walsh has not done successful rather immoderate clip is workout her funny-bone, by mode of doing unrecorded comedy.

When she was younger and surviving successful New York, Walsh present 55, was a subordinate of the drama troupe Burn Manhattan. 

Speaking connected drama now, Walsh explains that she thinks times person changed. 

Kate Walsh was antecedently successful the drama troupe Burn Manhattan. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage)

"It's intolerable fundamentally to bash that," she says of performing a unrecorded show. "You'd person to person radical enactment their phones successful a handbasket - you'd person to person it ace locked up."

Walsh, who present lives successful Australia, says she knows that during COVID, chap histrion and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen performed with these restrictions. 

"I deliberation it's a truly tricky clip to beryllium funny. Because portion of wit is - good it's decidedly aforesaid deprecation, but it is, you know, making airy of truly hard things," she shared. 

"That's portion of the catharsis and the merchandise of it and the connectivity, and that's how, you know, I grew up."

She went connected to accidental that tv of her epoch would apt not thrive successful today's modern world. "I mean yah, the shows that I grew up watching, I mean "All successful the Family"…"M.A.S.H." - each these things that you'd beryllium like, ‘Wait…you astir apt wouldn't get that amusement connected tv today.'"

Kate Walsh discussed however she wasn't definite "All successful the Family" oregon "M.A.S.H." would beryllium capable to aerial today. (CBS Photo Archive/ CBS Photo Archive)

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Walsh shared her instrumentality connected wherefore it is truthful hard to archer a gag successful today's society.

"It's unfortunate…because you commencement censoring," she said. She says "to get 1 bully joke, you person to find similar 9 unspeakable jokes," and that "you person to beryllium capable to neglect and beryllium exposed, and to marque mistakes." 

With that being said, Walsh clarified that doesn't mean you tin "be abusive oregon immoderate of that" successful your comedy.

"It's conscionable that you've got to beryllium capable to beryllium fallible successful bid to beryllium truly creative. And if you get successful a civilization wherever it's excessively locked up, I deliberation that's truly tricky and unfortunate."

In presumption of what she considers off-limits successful the drama zone, Walsh admits, "I conscionable don't adjacent deliberation similar that."

Kate Walsh poses for a photograph with her cat, Pablo. (Purina Tidy Cats® )

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Instead, Walsh thinks chiefly astir her 2 beloved animals: her canine Rosie, 15 and feline Pablo, 18.

With her caller concern with Purina's Tidy Cats, Walsh is blessed to acceptable the grounds consecutive connected what a cat-woman looks like.

"I wanted to re-brand the 'Cat Lady' for a agelong clip - travel on, we're truly beauteous cool," she noted. 

Walsh was excited to spouse with Tidy Cats and their Lightweight Litter, which their property merchandise says is simply a 99.9% dust-free enactment for felines that gives continuous odor power to a space.

"Just this thought that you tin person a gorgeous location for the holidays...humans and pets tin coexist during a festive and hectic time," she shared.