Hi everybody!
Thank you for having us!
I'm so glad I have everybody.
I have the entire show.
We have to add lots seating here.
So OK, so you haven't shot the last one yet
No.
In fact we have the table read for the last one tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
Friday.
It's Friday now.
Really?
We have two days.
Read your email.
So nothing has changed.
Things are still not quite ready yet.
The chaos continues.
Until the very last minute.
This would be an important thing,
that obviously this script, for sure, of all scripts,
has to be--
and you have no idea how it ends?
No.
We're shooting the second to last episode and no idea.
Even that's changing while we're shooting it.
Really?
So wait-- and so now you're shooting the second to last.
So is this giving you any indication
or confusing you more in which direction it's going?
No.
No, because we know enough to know that if we feel
like this episode is leading us down a path,
then the rug is going to get ripped out from under us.
So you're terrified of what's going to happen.
I mean, do you think that there are
going to be people killed off?
We all have to live.
We're just pushing Scandal the movie, Scandal the movie.
We all just have to live to that.
Well there's so many Friends reboots--
well not Friends, but Roseanne, and Will and Grace.
Maybe in 20 years you'll do this again.
So hopefully we'll survive.
Although Josh Malina correctly pointed out--
he'll be here soon--
that we should all be killed because we've
done horrible, horrible things.
Everyone should die.
So maybe there's just like a nuclear explosion.
That would be the only just ending to the show.
There's no one left.
It's all of you.
Well no, that would be a horrible thing.
Then the reboot's in heaven.
Gladiators would be upset.
So who are you going to miss doing the love
scenes with the most?
You can say it now, because it's almost over.
Be honest.
You can totally say it now, because it's almost over.
I think when it comes to love scenes,
I'm going to miss Bellamy Young the most.
Spoiler, is that a spoiler?
No, so you can't.
You can't really--
I mean you can, you said you didn't really
like kissing either.
Exactly.
That was a total lie, by the way.
I'm not going to miss either of them in that way.
I'm going to miss them in a lot of other ways.
Yeah.
Well you all are still going to stay close.
You'll still hang out and do things.
I keep saying that, but Scott says no.
Scott's says he's not going to hang out with us.
I'm going to just show up at his house.
You've done it before.
You've had shows that you were on that end.
Yeah.
Is that fortunate or unfortunate?
Yes, I've been on enough shows, and enough
have ended that I'm finding myself doing it again,
and I know exactly how it goes.
Stop!
You're just having separation anxiety.
We're different.
I'm not talking about how you're going to deal with it,
I'm talking about how I'm going to deal with it.
I'm going to separate myself and nod my head a lot,
and watch from a distance, and disappear.
We're going to love you relentlessly,
and we're going to hunt you down.
We're going to kill you with hugs.
We're going to love you our whole life.
She has grown to love you.
You all worked on another show together.
And I don't think she liked you so much then.
We worked on Scrubs together y'all, and I was like,
that guy's a jerk.
Here's how much of a jerk I was.
I didn't know we worked on Scrubs together.
Wow.
Oh, Scott.
That's not her.
See, I had no idea that Bellamy Young was on Scrubs.
There she is.
But that's not me.
You were black?
Yeah, Yeah.
He was black in that show.
The range, Scott Foley, the range.
He really is a thespian.
Yeah.
So I hear that there were some dance moves that you were so
thrilled to work on.
Yeah you know, we had talked about the things of the show
that when table reads would come about,
anything that I instantly was terrified of,
and I remember reading the episode at the table
read where you and I have to dance, and I just thought why?
And I looked up, and Shonda Rhimes
is looking at me smiling.
Because she knows I hate it.
And I looked to the 12 writers at the other end of the table.
And they were doing the same thing.
And then once we did it, I got a call from Shonda saying,
what was that?
I was like, what do you mean?
I was dancing?
You scripted that I was supposed to dance, and I was dancing.
She goes yeah, but you had your--
there I am dancing.
Yep.
Oh, why are you showing that?
I'm all shoulders.
All shoulders.
I directed that episode, actually.
But there was a couple times where I had to,
you know, we were dancing and I put my hands above my head,
and she said, men don't dance with their hands
above their heads.
Is that right?
I didn't know there was a rule.
No I didn't know that.
Can I tell the story about--
so I directed that episode, right?
And then this season Scott directed an episode
when Fitz, you meet Fitz after the presidency,
and I was in Vermont, and Shonda had
written essentially the same thing for Fitz,
that Fitz like gets down when he's all alone by himself.
By himself.
And it's to some amazing song, and he's going to dance,
and Fitz just cuts loose.
And I'm like, oh my god, how am I going to do this?
Tony went for it.
The first take comes, maybe I didn't even tell you,
and it's like, I just got to go for it
and get it out of my system.
It was crazy.
So I had to go across a vast space.
And I'm like spinning and yelling,
and whatever I was doing--
It was amazing.
So I got that out of my system.
Scott comes in and he's like, that was amazing.
That was amazing.
But you know what Shonda is going
to say when she sees that in the dailies?
I said no, what?
He says, she's going to say, what the F is he doing?
So maybe in the next take, take it down a little bit.
I was like, oh, OK.
So I do a little bit less.
The next take ends, Scott says that was fantastic.
Just a little bit less.
Every take, just a little bit less.
So by the time we did the final take
I was kind of just going like--
He was literally snapping his fingers.
And then the scene was cut from the show.
That should have stayed in, because that's
hilarious to see that that's what Fitz
would do when he's by himself.
They're going to sell it.
They're going to sell outtakes.
I got to see it first.
No, let me see it first.