Jesse Williams Sounds Off on Determination to Depart Gray’s Anatomy

If you happen to’re combating imposter syndrome, you are not alone.

Jesse Williams exited ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy in 2021 after playing Jackson Avery for 12 years. His departure from the medical drama was met with unhappiness from followers who fell in love with the brooding, typically shirtless physician.

Nevertheless it was a obligatory change for Jesse, who tells the New York Times that he felt “more and more secure, protected, insulated” on the Shonda Rhimes collection. 

“I knew that as I designed my exit, the following factor I did needed to be terrifying,” he defined. “I wanted to get out of my consolation zone, I wanted to enter a really unknown place.”

He discovered that problem within the upcoming Broadway revival of Take Me Out, a Tony winner a couple of baseball participant who comes out of the closet. The play is a complete new ball sport compared to Gray’s, wherein he says he was “not even sporting pants in half of these scenes.”