When Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Station 19 aired its series finale six months ago, co-stars Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato were no readier to say goodbye to Maya and Carina than #Marina shippers were. (And we weren’t ready at all.) “There was so much more story to tell with [them],” Savre tells Entertainment Weekly.
Such as? The challenges Maya would have faced in raising a family at the same time as she’s fighting fires. “We knew when we did those flash-forwards that Maya carried one of their children,” Savre notes. So “it would have been nice to see how she was able to be pregnant and still be a firefighter.
“That’s something even real firefighters struggle with,” she adds, “because how do you balance work and motherhood? I would have loved to have seen Maya [tackle] that.”
Spampinato goes back even further for storyline inspiration. “Carina came into [Grey’s Anatomy] with this study about female sexuality, and I would love to see her almost come full circle with that and teach sex education to younger adults,” she says. “To still feel like [she’s] contributing to society in a different way, geared to young adults since she now has kids.
“Also, they say relationships after seven years go through a little struggle,” she continues. “I would have loved to see the seventh year of their relationship and see how they pulled through that.”
