“I never, ever forget how important Cristina is.”
Sandra Ohplayed Cristina Yang for 10 years.
She knows how important that character is to bothGrey’s Anatomyfans and her own career.
Sandra Oh on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Karen Neal/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
I made her."
As one of Bailey’s (Chandra Wilson) interns, Cristina quickly established herself as the most competitive.
She was there to be a surgeon, and nobody was going to get in her way.
She became Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) person.
She lost her eyebrows on the day she nearly married Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington).
She then kept her eyebrows when she married (and later divorced) Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd).
She survived a plane crash.
She operated under extreme duress when a gunman shot Derek (Patrick Dempsey).
But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t appreciate it for what it was.
I love that people still love Cristina," Oh tells THR.
I never, ever forget how important Cristina is.
Cristina Yang would be proud.
