Amidst all the relationship drama happening on Grey's
Anatomy right now, something very exciting is about to make its way to Grey
Sloan Memorial Hospital!
When E! News caught up with Jerrika Hinton (who plays
Stephanie Edwards on the ABC medical drama), she revealed that Stephanie is
soon going to have bigger concerns on her plate than dealing with her ex
Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April's (Sarah Drew) baby drama.
"She's only involved [with that storyline] as in she's
the bearer of bad news," Hinton says. "The rest of that journey is
theirs to take, thankfully. She has other medical concerns to attend to within
the hospital."
And what could those "other medical concerns" be?
"Stephanie gets to be a part of something ground-breaking
with someone you haven't seen her in too many scenes with before," Hinton
reveals. "Stephanie's journey in the back half of the season, as it stands
right now, I'm excited for it. It's been a while since I've been this excited
because playing the jilted lover, that was something, but now I get to sink my
teeth into something! And I love when I get to do research, and the things that
Stephanie is involved with now…somehow or another Grey Sloan is always the
place with ground-breaking medical discoveries. I don't know how that's case
but it is!"
This is hardly the first time Stephanie has been a part of
some huge trial or research project, but
Hinton teases that this upcoming discovery
will be career-defining for her young doc.
"What I've realized is, in the tiny three years that
she's been there, this has happened to Stephanie a lot," Hinton says with
a laugh. "She got to be a part of Meredith's [Ellen Pompeo] 3D printing
lab, she got to be a part of Bailey's [Chandra Wilson] genome project, and now
she's going to get to be a part of this third gigantic thing."
She continues, "How does this girl have such a nose for
this? How does she keep sniffing out these avenues that turn out to be so
exciting and titillating in a really fantastic way? I don't know, but that's
what's on deck for her, another gigantically ground-breaking surgical
discovery."
Hinton wonders if that's Stephanie's special skill, what
makes her a truly stellar doctor: her ability to recognize what ideas and
theories will be successful down the line.
"She's an innovator!" Hinton says. "I'm not
sure if the writers are really tracking this about her, but from an acting
point of view, it really does feel like that's what this girl's backbone and
skill is, in a way. She wants the new thing. She wants to break new
ground."
f course, that hasn't left much time for a love life. Ever
since Jackson left her for April, Stephanie hasn't gotten any new love
interests on the show...at least, ones that we've seen onscreen.
"I keep telling myself that all of Stephanie's action
happens outside of the hospital, because she's now learned not to bring her
love life into her work place," Hinton says with a laugh. "That's why
we don't see it on TV, even though she's getting laid left and right! No more
incestuous relationships. She learned the hard way with Jackson! But I hope
she'll get a new love interest soon."
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