in_the_after | Behind the Big Kiss with Kevin Mckidd

Sandra Oh doesn't do Grey's Anatomy interviews, but her co-star Kevin McKidd does. Here is a brand new interview from Fancast with Kevin McKidd where he talks about the latest episode of Grey's and what is coming up for Yang and Hunt:

Fans of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’s‘ Owen/Cristina romance surely have watched, re-watched and re-re-watched the couple’s big kiss from the last episode, “Holidaze.” As such, you may think you know everything there is to know about that scorching smooch.

Think again.
I spoke with Kevin McKidd just before he jetted home to Scotland for the holidays, and he shed light on how the pivotal scene was meant to play out as well as shared insight into why Owen kissed Cristina so ardently.

First, the how. The way the episode was edited together, it appears that Owen took a day – from New Year’s Eve until the following afternoon – to process his intense run-in with Teddy and then ultimately demonstrate his feelings for Cristina.

McKidd, though, says that in the original script Cristina and Owen had their confrontation “the very next moment after he had his conversation with Teddy. He actually walked out of that scene with Teddy and into the scene with Cristina.”

Upon seeing the show’s final edit – in which the scenes were intercut with a “New Year’s Day” title card – McKidd says even he had to exclaim, “Oh, no. They made it the next day!”

Worth the “wait” though, right?

Now as for the why of the lip lock… well, that’s simply how the sometimes stoic Dr. Hunt operates.

“The thing about Owen,” McKidd says, “is that words get the better of him sometimes. But the pain he felt for putting her into that position [of not knowing] was too much for him. So in that moment he wanted to try, in a noble way, to communicate how much he really loves her. And the only way he could do that was by kissing her in that way.”

Sure enough, the bold buss assuaged any concerns Yang had about Hunt and how he might feel about her versus Teddy. “There was no ambiguity,” McKidd says. “He very directly tried to make her feel secure and on safe ground again.”

Is Dr. Altman done making waves for Hunt and Yang? Perhaps not just yet. When ‘Grey’s’ returns with new episodes on January 14, Teddy’s behavior in the wake of Owen rebuff will give people pause.

“He made it very clear where the line in the sand was, so he’s worried now that she’s operating in a way that could do some damage” – figuratively and literally, McKidd says.

Will Teddy’s behavior include trying to undermine Cristina in the workplace? All parties involved may wish it were so simple. Instead, what she does “is more complicated and subconscious,” McKidd teases, “which is a good thing and a bad thing.”

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I agree with rachel that the pro-Owen/anti-Owen positions have become too extreme to be interesting. The haters are so angry and refuse to see any redeeming qualities in the man at all. The defenders get, well, defensive and therefore can't concede that any of Owen's behavior is worthy of criticism. What is so interesting about both Cristina and Owen is that they are flawed people, with some huge weaknesses along with their great strengths. The fun was watching these two damaged people try to figure out how to have an intimate and honest relationship. If the show were a little better written, we'd be talking about that instead of dealing with all the name-calling and accusations.

This interview may have been damage control, but if that was the goal, why do it on fancast.com? Is that site so widely visited and followed that it is a good place to get this message out? Maybe the message is being sent in that calculated way, or maybe KMK was just describing his view of the scene honestly. What he said is consistent with what he said before the episode aired. Not all, but many of the accusations about Owen's supposed "ambiguity" about Teddy came primarily from the way certain scenes were sort of "filtered" through the comments in the writer's blog and on the podcast. That's where I think there was some fan manipulation going on, and unless Shonda's intent was to make fans angry at Owen's character, it seems to have back-fired.

As to whether the Owen-bashing on TWOP or elsewhere really has an impact on Shonda, I'm not so sure. If she really gave a damn about fan criticism, the "Dead Denny" story line would have been ended at the earliest opportunity. Instead, she dragged it through all of season 5 and included a special feature about it on the Season 5 DVDs. So I think she will do whatever she does, and to hell with all of us!

I agree that Teddy will cultivate at least a close professional relationship with Cristina, and perhaps a friendship as well, and that that will create tension between Owen and Cristina over the next few episodes. But as to Teddy meeting "all" of Cristina's needs - - well, unless they are planning on re-visiting Callie's story line and having Cristina re-examine her sexuality, there are some needs I think she will keep going to Owen to have met. And I'm happy with that, because I don't think that Owen's character has been as damaged as some others believe. As I said at the beginning, I don't think he was never supposed to be perfect, and not just because of the PTSD (and, BTW, I do NOT think he's been given a "pass" because of that). Cristina is far from perfect too. But I still like them together, and I hope that Shonda & Co decide to keep them that way.

You may not think he gets a pass from the writers, but I think he gets a PTSD pass from some fans whenever he does something stupid. Same way Cris gets a pass from her meaness at times because of her childhood.

When I said Teddy would meet all Cristina's needs I was talking about Cardio needs, not her going home to shag Owen and not talk about issues.

The problem is that we are half through the season and have yet to see them talk about anything. A casual viewer would think they are just fuck buddies, which at the moment is all I have seen on screen, fighting then shagging and breakfast with Callie and Arizona. Heck even Mark and Lexie are more in tune with each other.

Happy place with a naked KMK.

"The problem is that we are half through the season and have yet to see them talk about anything. A casual viewer would think they are just fuck buddies, which at the moment is all I have seen on screen, fighting then shagging and breakfast with Callie and Arizona. Heck even Mark and Lexie are more in tune with each other."

I agree. Maybe I buyed too much into the concept of their „mature and great love story” last season but when you compare their relationship as it used to be, to what’s happening to them this year, it’s laughable. Hard to grasp they are even the same couple. I’m not naive and I know that no relationship is perfect nor do I expect them to sail smoothly and in tune all the time. I was defending Oeen when this season started and people were criticising him for not giving Cristina time in OR or snarking about her obsession with surgeries. But the writers never know when to stop and I can’t buy it that the same guy, who last year used to notice every wrinkle of distress on Cristina’s face and dragged her into nearest supply closet to sort things out, now is so absolutly, painfully dense and oblivious. She almost breaks out in front of him and his reaction is to bark out „See what?” and carry on as usual. Come on. There is like zero verbal communication between those two.

I’ve never expected Owen to be „perfect”. He wasn’t perfect last season, was he? Hard-headed man who refuses to get help, breaks out with his fiancee via email and let his mother believe that he is still in Iraq. No, he was not perfect and I wouldn’t want him to be. I only want him to be a man, strong decisive and all, without resorting to agressive fits (like McQueen I believe not everything should and could be excused by his PTSD).

"If she really gave a damn about fan criticism, the "Dead Denny" story line would have been ended at the earliest opportunity. Instead, she dragged it through all of season 5 and included a special feature about it on the Season 5 DVDs."

WORD. I say this to every one and post it everywhere. I've even mention this insane "Dead Denny" love she has on ABC advisory board activities. It's like the fact that people hated it (when he obviously thought it was just great ) makes her want to cram it down people throats even more. And the fact that C/O was so instantly wildly popular makes her hate it and want to destroy it.

Teddy is the new "Dead Denny". He was a time suck and a complete annoyance S5, but at least he wasn't coming between C/O. At least his presence didn't make it impossible to enjoy the season because he had nothing to do with C/O and they are the whole reason S5 was any good at all. I bought the DVD. It's the only season of GA I own. Teddy is Dead Denny-ing the whole C/O SL this year. I wont be buying S6 on DVD. I can pretty much promise that. Teddy would have to hang herself and the rest of the season would have to be pure C/O bliss, with near constant shirlessness from Owen and C/O makeouts galore, for that to happen. It's crazy, I know, but it's like I don't want to have that woman in my house. LOL. I don't even watch the repeats this year. I've stopped down loading the CO clips posted on this site that I used to always get and LOVED, because Teddy taints every scene. I still get the screen caps because they have been pretty Teddyless thankfully. I don't know. This SL is actually depressing me. Sad.

I just think Shonda wants to pair up Kim Raver and Kevin McKidd and didn't understand how much the fans like Kev and Sandra.

Shonda wants ANOTHER leggy blonde to live vicariously through. She did it with Izzie/Alex/Denny and is doing it again.

I always shudder when I hear her gush over the men on the show.

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