On Grey's Anatomy, may Jo Wilson have a new possible love interest?
Fans were introduced to army veteran Sam Sutton, played by Sam Page, on Thursday's episode of the ABC medical drama. In the episode, Sam wasted little time in introducing himself to Camilla Luddington's Jo Wilson, with whom he exchanged flirtatious conversation before his surgery.
Page, 46, tells HotGossipNewz exclusively that his character and Jo "strike up a very genuine relationship" after he was hospitalised with terrible injuries on the show.
"We have a lot of good conversations, and everything that starts kind of on the surface really goes deeper as the long run in the hospital [continues]," adds Page, who appears on the show on a regular basis.
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"This may come across as forward, but I might be dying in the next 18 hours, so I'm going to ask, are you single?" Sam asked Jo during their first meeting. Remember, I could be dying, so you could lie if I'm not."
"I'm single," she replied, to which he replied, "Great! Now I have a reason to live."
"It was almost as if, going into surgery, Sam is in the mindset of: 'Here I go,'" Page says of the moment with Luddington. 'I'm going to jump off this cliff, spread my wings, and hopefully survive.'"
"He's cavalier in that moment, too," he continues, "but there's some real fear."
The daring move comes while Jo and Atticus "Link" Lincoln (Chris Carmack) remain in a love limbo. They've gotten closer in recent episodes, but Link has yet to find the appropriate moment to tell Jo that he considers her more than a friend.
During his interview with HotGossipNewz, Page — whose previous credits include The Bold Type, Gossip Girl, and Hallmark's Christmas in Rome — also discusses how the new Grey's Anatomy interns have brought new vitality to the set.
"I was surprised that it didn't have the feel of being at the end of a show's run." "It had the opposite effect," he says. "It really felt with the way the narratives of the show's storyline are kind of being bolstered by this crop of young interns, Adelaide, Alexis [Floyd], Midori [Francis], Harry [Shum Jr.], and Niko [Terho], and it had much more of a feeling of a beginning of something."
"I don't know, it's hard to explain," he says, "but it had an energy of maybe rebirth." "And I'd hear separately from other actors who'd been there for a while who were just having a lot of fun and talking about how this kind of influx of these young characters and these big storylines for them has given the show such great energy." And it truly has."
"I wasn't there before that, so I wouldn't know what that was like," Page continues, "but there's an extraordinary sense of excitement on set at all times, which is something you kind of don't expect in the 420th episode of a show."
Grey's Anatomy airs on ABC on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.
