Grey's Anatomy - TV Guide Interview with Jesse Williams Posted by MadWelshBoy87 at Friday, November 06, 2009 View Comments Labels: Grey's Anatomy

Now that you've seen the kiss between Owen's gal Cristina (Sandra Oh) and new Mercy Wester Jackson (Jesse Williams) on Grey's Anatomy, find out about the aftermath, details on the other Mercy West-Seattle Grace coupling and the return of Izzie (Katherine Heigl) from Williams himself. (Read our episode recap here.

TVGuide.com: Jackson and Cristina kissed! What the ... ?
Jesse Williams: From the beginning when Jackson joined, he's immediately thrown into this direct competition with Cristina. We're on the same cases, we're battling for surgeries. We've had a couple of run-ins. In this episode, she really takes charge and goes with her gut and I'm in a position to really admire her. We have similar character traits and watching her take the reins gets Jackson fired up. He's looking at her differently now. He's seen a whole new side of her that's so attractive. What also helped was that he had been boozing all night, but the attraction is real and it has been mounting. I think she kind of liked it.

TVGuide.com: Yeah, she doesn't pull away right away. She kisses him back for a brief moment.
Williams: That would be Jackson's argument. We don't address it directly right away in the coming episodes. What we're doing is letting it hang out there for a little bit and let the audience feel that tension and the moments between her and I going forward. Jackson doesn't know anything about Cristina and Owen [Kevin McKidd], so it's not an affront to Owen, it's just a man attracted to a woman

Source: Full Interview at TV Guide