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SCANDAL CAST TALKS ABOUT THEIR SUMMER PROJECTS
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The stars of ABC’s “Scandal” are on hiatus now until July, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be working on other projects.
“Really what I’m going to do for a lot of the summer is devote my time to the White House,” said Kerry Washington. “I’m on the president’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities and I work with a school in Washington called Savoy Elementary.”
The theme of Kerry Washington’s summer is “arts advocacy.” Many of her co-stars will be performing in different genres of the arts.
Katie Lowes is heading back to the stage.
“It’s called ‘I am a Theatre Company.’ I started it with my friends seven years ago. It’s here in L.A. and we have a one-act festival, so I’m going to get back to my roots with my friends from college and we’re going to make some theatre,” said Lowes.
Darby Stanchfield will be doing a radio play for NPR.
“It’s a short little project, but I come from theatre and so I’m really excited to sort of dabble in it again,” said Stanchfield.
And summer won’t be over ‘til the first lady sings.
“This summer, what I’m going to do is make an album. It allowed me to sing again. I did Broadway forever and just sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium and have started singing a little bit again,” said Bellamy Young.
Her TV husband, Tony Goldwyn, is shooting the futuristic film, “Divergent,” with Kate Winslet and Shailene Woodley.
If you follow my blog, you know there are two things I’m pretty big on, not coddling bullshit and ultimately finding some kind of peace or zen in all situations.
The impact of the season finale seems to heavily warrant both right now.
As I said in my first post on the finale yesterday, the end of the episode was a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT. And this coming from me as someone who did not expect Olivia and Fitz to stay together or at least not in a traditional sense by the end of the season. The actions of Fitz and Olivia continue to defy logic for me, and honestly, much like episode 213, the finale felt like an attempt to see just how far they could push the envelope instead of how to progress storylines and develop characters. I am so disappointed in fact that I’m hesitant to do much analysis if any on this episode because I feel so many of the meaningful events in the episode were basically negated by the ending.
The last 10% of the episode ruined the remaining 90% that honestly, pretty much kicked ass and it’s a damn shame.
So based on that, I had two choices
- Freak the fuck out
or
- Get the fuck over it.
Guess which fuck I chose to give? Two guesses and the first doesn’t count.
Access Hollywood: Scandal Cast Discusses The Big Season 2 Finale
Thursday night’s Season 2 finale was the highest rated “Scandal” ever, with over 9 million tuning in. The finale was so exciting that many have dubbed Friday “National Scandal Hangover Day.” So, what remedies would the cast recommend?
ABC’s “Scandal” finale closed the climactic second season with the show’s biggest bombshell yet: the mysterious Rowan (Joe Morton), the B613 boss who has been threatening Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and giving Jake (Scott Foley) his orders, is also Olivia Pope’s (Kerry Washington) father. Move over, Darth Vader.
Rhimes confirmed that there wouldn’t be much of a time-jump between the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3, telling THR, “I was really adamant about the fact that if we were going to end the season with the idea that Liv has been somehow outed by some unknown force and we meet her dad, we couldn’t then just say we’re going to jump ahead and cheat the audience of what all that meant.”
Speaking to TV Guide, Rhimes observed that “[Mellie] took him back in the end, but that was a little bit like a boy coming home to his mama, wasn’t it? It wasn’t a romantic coming home. That’s going to be a very interesting dynamic when we come back next season.”
“I feel like Fitz is determined, if he can set Mellie on a path towards the truth, then this will all get sorted out, because he feels like their relationship was corrupt from its beginning. He’s committed to reality, he’s willing to face that. He’s committed to Olivia, he’s committed to forcing Mellie to deal in reality, and ultimately I think he would want Mellie to be happy. He doesn’t hate Mellie.” - Tony Goldwyn
Read more articles on the Scandal Finale at THR, EW and TV Guide.
Since we had to postpone tonight’s Scandal Colosseum podcast, I’m just gonna say I’m sorry and leave you with some happy memories!
Stay tuned for the Scandal Summer School podcasts in a couple of weeks! We’ll make up it we promise!
GIFS: Tony and Kerry Entrances on the View (Jan 2013 vs. May 2013)
View videos with all the members of the Scandal cast from outside the ATAS table read event on TheTVaddict’s YouTube page.
Bad news ScandalFam - looks like there will be no official video of the ATAS Table Read. The Academy didn’t record it.
First Paley and now this. And I ain’t even gonna start on the EW Malina birthday video escapade.
What is it with Scandal and recorded events?
