[This interview contains spoilers from the March 16 episode of Memory of a Killer.]
Patrick Dempsey has never played a character quite like with his starring role on Fox’s Memory of a Killer. More than a decade after leaving Grey’s Anatomy, the ABC medical drama where he played legendary neurosurgeon Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd for 11 seasons, Dempsey has stepped into the role of a cold-blooded contract killer who struggles to keep his double life a secret after experiencing symptoms of early onset Alzheimer’s — the same disease, ironically, that Derek spent years researching on Grey’s.
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“What was really appealing was the assassin side, and certainly the Alzheimer’s and the dementia side,” Dempsey tells The Hollywood Reporter of his long-awaited return to network TV. “I don’t get this type of character offered to me very often, and it came to me
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