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Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors, Psychics, & Tomb Raiders

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors, Psychics, & Tomb Raiders

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Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Hi, my name is Camilla Luddington and I'm from Grey's Anatomy.

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And she's a doctor, so I might pretend to faint.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

CPR. I won't be able to help you whatsoever.

Young Hollywood

The lovely Camilla Luddington. Sit next to me. How are you?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Hello. I'm good, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Young Hollywood

You're You're ridiculous. Which someone just said which in England we wouldn't say that, would we? For something good. We'd say amazing, epic.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

We'd say amazing. Brilliant. Gorgeous. Blush. All of the above.

Young Hollywood

Um, George thinks so as well. Two wonderful females on a sofa, this is brilliant. And you're a wonderful doctor.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

If I was to pass out, that that's questionable.

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You're learning.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I'm learning.

Young Hollywood

You're learning the ropes. Yeah. So Grey's Anatomy, that's amazing. It really is good. Yes. Congratulations.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Thank you so much.

Young Hollywood

And you're playing Dr. Jo Wilson.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I am.

Young Hollywood

Was it hard to become a doctor? Are you familiar with doctors?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Actually, the one thing they did send us to do is the first week of work, they said us to go see a real operation, an open-heart surgery. And that was crazy, disgusting, awful. Yeah, it was. And it was five hours in in a surgery.

Young Hollywood

It's disturbing for the person that's having it done. Do they know?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Well, they get to Oh my God. Hollywood abusing someone in hospital. I'm pretty No, he knew because he was chatting with

Young Hollywood

How do you know he knew?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

He was He was chatting to us before we we he went under, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Oh, I thought you meant why he was having it done. So, there you go. There's my heart.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

No. No, no. He has to sign something, I mean, actually the night before there had been an earthquake. And when I was stood, because I thought they would have us stand really far away, too, and I was stood at the guy's head looking down into his open chest. And I was shaking so much that I thought that there was another earthquake.

Young Hollywood

So, you're doing really well. You're doing brilliant. Um, have you had to learn like all the terms and stuff like that, or I guess because you're

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Slowly. Slowly. Yeah. They give you like a cheat sheet so that on your first day of work or you know, first day of the episode, you get all the terms and then what they mean.

Young Hollywood

Saying that, we've got uh we want to test your uh your doctor's abilities.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Oh God, okay.

Young Hollywood

Um, with Operation. Classic game, which neither of us have played, so this should be interesting.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

This actually looks like the set of Grey's Anatomy right now. Oh, can I do this as well? Can I actually ask you what parts we're removing? You should know that, shouldn't you?

Young Hollywood

Sure. Okay. I'm going to go first. What What am I taking out now? Smiley face. No, that's not the correct term. Um, the amaryllis. I definitely just made that up. Just go for it, though. You're a good liar.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I know. I know. Oh, crap. I think you've just killed whoever this is.

Young Hollywood

No, it's just a little bit of pain. Oh, no. You've ruined it. Okay, hang on. Oh, no, I'm like. Yes. My go again. It's good, I'm I'm not This is so hard. How do kids play this? I don't know what this is. You're not even trying.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

No, I am trying. Trying properly. Ah.

Young Hollywood

zero. And what is that that you pulled out?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

thing.

Young Hollywood

What have you been doing on the show that you can tell us? Just laughing, having fun. Tell us about it. Come on.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Well, this week the episode is being told from the intern's point of view. And uh I am working with Karev in the Peds ward and we do not get along. We hate each other. And and that is very frustrating to her. So they definitely have some drama there. And also a woman goes into labor and Jo is by herself and she has to deal with that for the first time. And fun fact, people, when when

Young Hollywood

They sound exciting. I know, right? That's a great for Grey's Anatomy. Like, the the baby when when they get birthed, they smother it in cream cheese and jelly. A real baby?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

No, that will probably be Wait. Whoa. Hang on, you just told me that Grey's Anatomy go to a hospital and watch live open-heart surgery. So I don't know what they do on that show. We're definitely not stealing babies and and covering them in jam.

Young Hollywood

But you do Shows do use real babies, don't they? At some point.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

They do, but not for that part. Not for that part. No. And then they switch a real baby in.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Not covered in cream cheese.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Exactly.

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But you've got lots of other exciting things going on.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I do. I have Tomb Raider.

Young Hollywood

Tomb Raider. Lara Croft.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Lara Croft.

Young Hollywood

How did that happen?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I went in for an audition and originally it wasn't called uh Tomb Raider. It was it had a code name, Cryptid, and I had no idea what it was about. But I remember reading the character sides and thinking, she kind of sounds like Lara Croft. So I actually went in boots and shorts and my hair pulled back. I had to do this very strange auditioning audition where that you had to, like, run and jump and do all these weird things, cuz I do motion capture. Yeah. As well as acting outside. And then that's how I got it. Um, and now the

Young Hollywood

you're so you're in the video game. You're the voice Have you played it?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

I've actually played it, yes. And I I've seen somebody play the game the entire way through, it took two days, and I watched the whole game. It's really weird. Because

Young Hollywood

You watched them for two days? Yeah. That's stalking.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Trust me, I know. They didn't know about it. Just through the window. Just through the window. No.

Young Hollywood

A little bit weird. A little bit weird. Is it weird when you're playing it and, like, something Cuz obviously she can get injured and stuff.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

It is. Especially cuz she dies in such terrible ways. Right. Which my brothers will just have a field day with because they told me they're just going to kill me over and over if I piss them off. Um, I actually spent a day in the ADR booth just dying. Like, drown Any possible way I could die, like drowning, being stabbed, set on fire, whatever it is. I had to spend a day just dying. A lot of stuff.

Young Hollywood

Can we reenact some of them sounds? Just put me on the spot like that. Go, do it. Bring it on.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Um, stabbed. Shoot. Oh, no. That was a bad one. You know what was hard to do was drowning. I've got to think of some way to reenact drowning. Water. It's something like that. Please play the game. I'm a lot better in an ADR booth.

Young Hollywood

And then True Blood as well.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

True Blood, yes. Played on True Blood, yes. That was an amazing role because I was such a huge fan of True Blood before I got on the show. And I was just like, Oh my God, it's Alexander Skarsgård. And I was embarrassing.

Young Hollywood

He does my nut in. He does my head in. Everyone is just obsessed with his bum. Really?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Yes. I I walk around Coachella with him and people used to just stop him and look at his bum.

Young Hollywood

But your characters are telepathic as well.

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Yes. And we can shoot light and kill people and it's it's very cool.

Young Hollywood

I'm going to tell you something right now. Right? Really? Okay. What's wrong with that? Hang on. Definitely not. No. No chance. Okay. Then we should definitely wrap it up. We should definitely wrap it up, then. I have learned nothing from you today. I've Nothing about hospitals. I'm bad at everything. I'm a mess. Can you at least do CPR?

Camilla Luddington Plays Doctors

Absolutely not. Because you know what my next move would be.

Young Hollywood

Anyway, all right. We're done.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Camilla Luddington

    The subject of the interview, actress

  • Jo Wilson

    Character played by Camilla Luddington on 'Grey's Anatomy'

  • Karev

    Character from 'Grey's Anatomy' mentioned by Camilla

  • Lara Croft

    Video game character voice-acted by Camilla Luddington

  • Alexander Skarsgård

    Actor mentioned by Camilla regarding 'True Blood'

FAQ

Who plays Dr. Jo Wilson on Grey's Anatomy?+
Camilla Luddington plays Dr. Jo Wilson on Grey's Anatomy.
What video game character did Camilla Luddington voice?+
Camilla Luddington voiced Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider video game.
What was Camilla Luddington's experience visiting an open-heart surgery like?+
Camilla Luddington described the five-hour open-heart surgery she witnessed for Grey's Anatomy as crazy, disgusting, and awful, and she was shaking during the experience.
How did Camilla Luddington get the role of Lara Croft?+
Camilla Luddington auditioned for the role under the code name 'Cryptid' and had to perform running and jumping for motion capture, which she does for the character.
What other TV show was Camilla Luddington a fan of before appearing on it?+
Camilla Luddington was a huge fan of 'True Blood' before getting a role on the show.
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