According to the AP (via Yahoo! News), the actors who play Drs. McDreamy and Burke, who battled for cock-of-the-walk interim chief of medicine after their chief was hospitalized following brain surgery (Season 2, people, it's called Netflix, look into it), erupted into a full-on brawl, with Isaiah Washington grabbing Patrick Dempsey by the throat and shoved him.
Reportedly--and in what TV insiders are calling a television first--Shannen Doherty does not seem to be at all involved.
From the report:
The actors shared a heated exchange Monday about cast members delaying a scene when Washington, 43, grabbed Dempsey, 40, by the throat and shoved him, according to the newspaper. Representatives for the actors said the two have made amends. "Differences are inevitable," Washington's publicist, Cynthia Snyder, said in a statement. "They were aired, resolved and everyone has moved on."Dempsey's spokeswoman echoed that sentiment: "There was an argument on set. In any close-knit family, sometimes people argue. But everybody made up and went back to work."
Nobody really knows what happened to cause the scuffle. But my inside sources tell me the argument went something like this:
Washington: Dude...What is the deal with your hair?
Dempsey: What are you talking about?
Washington: It always looks perfect. That's not normal.
Dempsey: My wife is a hairdresser, I guess I'm just lucky.
Washington: I could take you, you know. You AND your hair. I was almost a professional football player. Who do you think you are, John F. Kennedy?
Dempsey: No, but I did play him on TV.
Washington: You probably think you're pretty cool, huh? [mimicking] "Look at me, I'm Patrick Dempsey--I'm cool, just like Bruce Willis, and that's why I named my daughter Tallulah!" [dances around in a circle of mockery] Tallulah, Tallulah...
Dempsey: Oh no you didn't. [trying to regain control] Whatever. Three words for you--Wild Things 2.
Washington: Oh yeah? Three other words for you--Heaven Help Us. Kevin Dillon had higher billing than you in that film.
Dempsey: That was TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Washington: And you've still got the same hair, which is exactly my point. You're clearly evil or alien, and you must be destroyed. [Lunges at Dempsey, grabs him by the throat.]
....and END SCENE.
Can't buy me love! Can't buy my loooo--oove!
Posted by: John | October 15, 2006 at 05:12 PM
And this is exactly why I heart you Esther :)
Posted by: Z | October 17, 2006 at 12:08 PM