i ahead of season 15 av «Grey’s Anatomy», the cast gathered for a trial reading of the script in Los Angeles. Present was BokHee An (83), a true nurse who has been in more than 200 episodes of the popular series since it premiered in 2005.
They look like this today
Got applause
Her character, with the same name, BokHee, has assisted the series’ surgeons in the prepared operating rooms for years, but has only had one reply. This day, however, her name appeared in the script. After a historic operation, she will call Meredith Gray, played by Ellen Pompeo, a “wonder woman”.
Watch the video where BokHee An calls Meredith Gray “wonder woman” below.
When An said her reply to the test reading, she received applause from the others in the room. And when the episode came out in February 2019, her fans probably reacted in the same way.
“I was so nervous during the trial reading. Of course, English is not my native language, so I’m always worried that people will not understand what I’m saying or that I’m going to say a sentence incorrectly. But when everyone clapped for me, I felt so happy and as part of a family.
The 83-year-old says it in a big way interview to Bustle.
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Got lots of fans
Her serious face on screen has made her a bit of one celebrity on Instagram, where she has 629,000 followers. In addition to countless fan sites. She has also been given her own nickname: “Queen BokHee.”
When asked what she thinks about something as rare as a regular extra getting such a large crowd of fans and having such an impact, she answers:
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“I have never tried to make an impact. It came naturally. I have been involved from the beginning and people started to find out who I am. Now people recognize me in the grocery store. It is funny. I hear from fans, who play games where they get points every time they see me on the screen “, she says.
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BokHee adds that her friend and producer in the series, Dr. Michael Metzner, told her that people would love to see her on Instagram, and therefore helped her create an account.
From South Korea to California
She herself was born in 1939 in a small town in Chungnam in South Korea. As a 17-year-old, she broke with the usual customs and moved north to Seoul to study. At the age of 20, she was expected to get married, but she did not want to. An rather considered becoming a nun, but that was not to be the case either.
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Her own godmother introduced her to an obstetrician, for whom she ended up becoming an assistant. At the beginning of her medical career, she therefore helped during childbirth.
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Her parents still wanted to see her married, but once again they were to be disappointed. The daughter had other plans and in 1968 she went with a friend to California where she then changed her name to Kathy. But even though it is her name on paper, BokHee is the name she uses the most and the name we know her by in “Grey’s Anatomy”.
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In the United States, she earned salt in the porridge by babysitting for the children of a plastic surgeon during the day. At night she worked in the surgical department of a hospital.
