Red Carpet Report:Entertainment Weekly pre-Screen Actors' Guild Awards party

What: A party celebrating SAG nominees

Where: Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, Calif.

When: Saturday night

Guest list:Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Joel McHale, Amy Poehler, Cat Deeley, Rose McGowan, Martha Plimpton; From Glee: Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Chord Overstreet, Iqbal Theba, Jenna Ushkowitz, Harry Shum Jr., Max Adler; Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet, Ty Burrell, Ariel Winter and Nolan Gould, Shenae Grimes, Ben McKenzie, Brittany Snow, Minka Kelly, Grey's Anatomy's Kim Raver and Kevin McKidd, The Office's Brian Baumgartner, 30 Rock'sKevin Brown and Maulik Pancholy, Mad Men's Rich Sommer, Psych's Dule Hill, Garcelle Beauvais, Dexter's Peter Weller and Julia Stiles

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Interview with Kevin McKidd, who plays Dr Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy 5:16pm Fri 28 Jan 11

Season 7 of Grey's Anatomy is on Wednesdays at 10pm on Sky Living.



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GREY'S ANATOMY - "Golden Hour" - Meredith, looking to prove she is Chief Resident material, learns that anything and everything can happen in an hour's time when she steps up to run the ER for a night; meanwhile, Bailey sneaks off with Eli and gets into a little mischief, and everyone is surprised when the Chief's wife, Adele, shows up as one of the ER patients, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

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What can you tell us about the episode—titled "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)"—you directed?
Mark (Eric Dane) has things to deal with Lexie (Chyler Leigh), like how's he going to tell her about Callie's (Sara Ramirez) pregnancy. That plays out in a big way. Also, Mark has things to deal with Lexie, like how's he going to tell her about Callie's pregnancy—that plays out in a big way.

The episode revolves around the very first day of Derek Shepherd's (Patrick Dempsey) clinical trial for Alzheimer's, which then plays out for the rest of the season. The trial very important to Derek.

That's the framework, and also during that day Callie has a meltdown—her hormones are up. She's very anxious…about how things are going to go down with Arizona and Mark. So she has an OB doctor, Rachael Taylor, who is a new castmember—Callie drives her around the bend because Callie basically becomes hypochondriac, which is very funny but also very touching and moving.

How much acting do you do in the episode?
They wrote my character to basically be at the dentist for most of the episode which is great, so I got a chance to take the foot off the gas—I did have to act in one scene.

Do you get to direct Sandra Oh as Cristina in this episode? Is she fully back on her feet?
She's back, she's healthy again, and she's not paralyzed in the way that she was, and it's fun. She's back and fighting, pushing people out of the way to get into an OR, all that stuff. It's great to see Cristina back to her old tricks.
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How did your fellow castmembers react to you being behind the camera?
Everyone in the cast, everyone, came up to me and they were just so supportive. Patrick [Dempsey] said to me, 'I've got your back.'

Everyone knows it's a lot of stress and you've taken on a whole new thing and there are millions of dollars riding on your shoulders and all that stuff—and everybody was amazing and I am very thankful to all of them. They just came to work and just supported me in the most loving way, and I will be eternally grateful to all of them for that, I have to say.

What's it like behind the scenes these days?
It's really a very good place to come to work. We all have other actor friends, a lot of people in this industry are finding it hard to get work because of the economy, so we all are very painfully aware of how lucky we are, and we're just blessed to come to work every day and get to act and get to do the thing we love so.

Everybody has their lives, a lot of people have kids, and it's almost like we all come to work and have fun catching up with each other and find out how things are going with each other...it's almost like a getaway from our real lives. That's the way it should be—being an actor is all about make-believe and about transporting yourself from this real world, and that's what I love about acting. I think it's a really fun and healthy and warm place to work.

Where did your directing ambition start—have you done it before? How did you approach the executive producers with your interest?
I have worked with some great directors, I've been very lucky over the years to watch some great directors make real visions come alive, but I've always been too busy really as an actor to pursue it. But I approached [the Grey's Anatomy producers] about a year and a half ago to ask if I could shadow directors maybe and start to learn. So I did that and then they said, look, we have these webisodes and we would like you to direct some.

I think the webisodes were my tryout or my audition, and it seems like I passed it because they offered me an episode pretty quickly after that.

I feel very lucky about how it's all gone. I am still pinching myself.

What elements of this episode are you most proud of as a director?
Everyone, including the guest stars, gives good performances, and I am very pleased with the teaser, this little two-minute sequence before the title card comes up. And I am also very pleased with the montage of act five and the montage of act six, where the music kicks in. I am just really pleased with how those all came out emotionally and the transitions from scene to scene, how all that edited together in the way that I hoped it would—I'm proud of those moments.

How do you want to see the Callie baby drama play out? Will you miss Owen while he's out with his dental problem? Hit the comments.

Be sure to tune in to Grey's Anatomy on ABC next Thursday at 9 p.m. for Kevin McKidd's television directorial debut, "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)."

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Kevin Mckidd makes his directorial debut on Thursday February 3. 2011 with the Grey's Anatomy episode "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)" Come join us at the Kevinmckiddonline forum for a live chat during the EST broadcast of the episode. And stay for our post episode discussion. We encourage everyone to post their personal thoughts and reviews on our forum as well. Let's give Kevin our whole-hearted support as he takes on this new and exciting challenge.

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Kevin McKidd Reveals Songs from the Grey's Musical Episode
Jan 27, 2011 03:21 PM ET

by Natalie Abrams Kevin McKidd Grey's Anatomy's upcoming musical episode is sure to bring back fond memories, if the show's set list is any indication.

As we first speculated, the musical episode will feature songs made popular by the medical series, like The Fray's "How to Save a Life" and Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars," which were both featured in the second season.

Kevin McKidd tells TVGuide.com that he'll be involved in both of those numbers, as well as singing Gomez's "How We Operate," which was heard in the penultimate episode of Season 2, "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response."

"We're in the studio right now," McKidd says. "I did my recording [Wednesday]. I've got quite a big couple of numbers. It's a one-off episode in Callie's point of view. It's very dramatic. It's a very intense episode. It's not going to be jazz hands and glitter balls."

  Though fans have been nervous that the show may be jumping the shark by doing a musical episode, McKidd insists that it's "a love letter to the fans." "It's very exciting and quite experimental. I think it's great that the show has taken such a bold move to do something like this, and I think it's going to work in a big way."

Grey's Anatomy returns with new episodes Thursday, Feb. 3 at 9/8c on ABC.