How Grey's Anatomy's Active Shooter Episode Affected Cast Members
For Chandra Wilson’s “Grey’s Anatomy” co-star Sarah Drew, she didn’t find the experience of filming the two-part Season 6 finale to be so great. In the tell-all book “How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy” by Lynette Rice, Drew revealed that it was rather traumatizing. In the finale, her character, April Kepner, is the one to find her deceased friend Reed Adamson (Nora Zehetner) in a medical supply closet after slipping on her blood.
“Putting yourself into that kind of panic mode does something to your body because your body doesn’t know that this is not happening,” said Drew. “I had nightmares and panic attacks while we were shooting that, even for several days after we finished. It was very intense and scary and hard to go to those places and then leave them at the door…”
Once home, Drew often had to actively remind herself that she wasn’t in danger and that she didn’t actually see a friend and colleague murdered.
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