The Men of Shondaland (Shonda Rhimesproduction company) has been making viewers swoon ever since Grey’s anatomy premiered in 2005.
Patrick Dempsey – whose Gray character Dr. Derek Shepherd was nicknamed “McDreamy” – his heartthrob status never bothered him. “It’s not necessarily me, but it helps your ego,” Dempsey told Parade in 2008.
Tony Goldwynwhich played President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Thomas Grant III Scandal, also knew that handsome leading men are a calling card of any Shondaland series.
“[Rhimes] says in Shondaland, in the love scenes the boys have to be the ones taking off their clothes, and the women, the girls can do whatever they want,” Goldwyn shared The cut in 2016.
Jonathan Bailey (Anthony Bridgerton on Bridgerton) had a slightly different take, noting that he doesn’t take kindly to critics who dismiss the series as silly because of its romantic scenes.
“There are so many people who will say, ‘Oh, yeah, Bonkerton.’ But the female gaze is so important because there are many ways that people communicate through sex, and what sex means and what your body means to someone else,” he shared. Entertainment weekly in 2022. “It is important that there is a reversal of sexuality and how people are exploited in the narration of sex.”
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