More than a year has passed since Jesse Williams stepped away from his role as Dr. Jackson Avery in the popular ABC series, Grey’s Anatomy. Since then, Williams has landed roles in Your Place or Mine and Team Joy, but he has not spent much time watching the hit ABC drama. In a recent interview with Variety, Williams revealed that he hasn’t kept up with the show since he left it in 2021.
“No, but I didn’t watch it for a significant portion of being on it. Which is not a comment on the show; it’s because it was no longer useful to watch myself,” Jesse Williams said when asked if he still watches the show.
As Williams explained, his decision not to watch the show has little to do with his appreciation for his time there. Rather, he doesn’t enjoy watching his past projects or work because it makes him “unsettled.”
“When I first started acting, I would watch to see if I was achieving what I thought I was achieving, and I was able to get a sense of myself from the outside in. But I’m a perfectionist, and watching myself eventually just made me more unsettled,” Williams explained.
Aside from interviews reminiscing on his past, Jesse Williams will star in the latest Broadway revival of Take Me Out. Williams plays the lede, a superstar baseball player who reveals to the world that he is gay. Richard Greenberg’s play will make its way to New York beginning October 27.
