Even though Jeffrey Dean Morgan knew his character was going to be a short-timer, it didn't stop him from trying to negotiate a longer life for Denny Duquette. In an interview on the YouTube show "Hot Ones," the actor revealed that he didn't want to leave "Grey's Anatomy" and really wanted to give fans more of Denny's love story with Izzie Stephens. "That's the one time that I saw my death coming and I was trying everything I could do to get out of that death," he said. Morgan admitted that he even went to showrunner Shonda Rhimes to plead with her to consider keeping him on. "I was like, 'Please don't kill me! I will do anything.' I did. I begged her," he said.

While Denny didn't make it out of Season 2 alive, the character was brought back for a few ghostly dream sequences. Still, Morgan really never got over the loss of the coveted role on the hit ABC medical drama. In 2006, he told The Los Angeles Times that filming his final scenes was terrible. "It was a grim day. I'm still not over it. It broke my heart to leave that show," he said.

And fans had a hard time getting over it too. In a 2007 interview with Marie Claire, Morgan revealed that after Denny's death scene aired, fans would see him on the street and look as though they'd seen a ghost. "There's a lot of crying involved," he said.