-Seven years of "Scandal." It´s really amazing.
-It´s crazy. It´s crazy.
-And I think now, it´s sort of easy to forget
what a big deal it was to be an African-American female lead
on a network television show.
-It hadn´t happened in a long time when we started.
It had been almost 40 years
since there had been a black woman leading a TV show.
-That´s crazy. -Yeah, it´s crazy.
-And I know there´s progress still to be made,
but I really think that started a trend of seeing more and more.
-Now there´s tons of shows with black female leads.
-It´s great. -It´s awesome!
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
And, also, you know -- And also, Indian-American leads.
-Yeah. -southeast-Asian and Asian
and Latin, and all kinds of people leading shows,
which is true, ´cause all kinds of people live lives.
-Yeah, it´s good.
There´s a lot of stories to tell about those lives.
-Yeah, that´s right.
-The other thing that I feel started with "Scandal,"
or at least I became aware of,
is you guys really connected with your fans online.
-Yeah. -The live-tweeting.
-Had an intense live-tweeting connection with your fans.
Will you miss that? -I think so.
I think when people ask me, like,
"Oh, what are the things you´ll miss about playing her?"
It´s a little hard, ´cause I don´t --
It´s a little bit like asking me what it´s gonna be like
to break up with somebody I´m still in love with.
-Yeah, right. -Right? Like I really
still love the show, and we´re still having a great time.
But I am. I´m gonna miss that community.
Like, every Thursday night, the live-tweeting.
We´re, like, in it together,
experiencing these crazy twists and turns.
-You watched it together. -We did, as a cast.
-And this is just a nice photo of the cast.
But I do have a question about what glasses are you wearing?
-They´re strange googly-eye glasses.
-Uh-huh. -Because why not?
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-You in those glasses is a bigger twist
than anything I´ve ever seen on "Scandal."
[ Laughter ]
-I think Halloween is coming up. -Yeah, right.
And, uh -- -Those are my eyes at the end.
It´s a big -- The ending of the episode...
Shocking results.
-See, that´s what you should´ve said.
You should´ve said, "Those aren´t glasses.
That´s what I saw -- the twist. I was like, "Baang!"
-"Wha?!" -And, uh --
-That is kind of how I felt, really.
-I´ve heard you take a memento from every part you play.
-I do.
-So, do you know what you´re taking?
-Well, I can´t tell you on national television,
because then, when the Prada bags are missing...
-Oh, right, yeah. [ Laughter ]
But wait. Now, that doesn´t seem like a memento.
That seems like you´re just stealing a purse.
-But it´s -- It´s not one purse.
-Okay, gotcha. [ Laughter ]
-It´s like 20 purses in various colors to match every outfit.
-I thought it was gonna be, "My lucky coffee mug."
But this is just theft. -Oh, no, no.
They mean a lot to me, these bags.
-Yeah, I bet.
-Seven years of memories in every single beautiful bag.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-It was a very well-dressed character.
-She´s still living, by the way. Not "was."
She
-I´m so sorry.
-And she´s still carrying Prada bags.
For 18 more episodes.
-That´s true. I apologize.
I did not mean to rush ahead.
Let´s live in the moment, enjoy the fact
that this is now a time
where it´s legal for you to have those bags.
[ Laughter ]
And that time will come to an end.
I´m saying this as your lawyer. -Okay.
-You put this up on social media.
You were -- You had very good seats at a Boyz II Men concert.
-I did. Look at that.
Look at that. I did not zoom in.
That´s where I was sitting.
-Yeah, that´s great. -It was amazing.
-How was the show? -It was phenomenal.
They had roses.
Obviously, when they sing "Bended Knee"...
for all of the older folks here. -Wow.
-You know "Bended Knee" is, like, a romantic song.
And I got a rose.
I was hoping I would get a rose. -Wow.
How many roses do they have?
-They had like 70.
But I was excited to get one! [ Laughter and applause]
-So, is it -- Now, how --
Does one of them hand out a rose
while the other guys are refilling their roses?
-Well, they -- You know, they riff,
so the guy who´s singing is the guy who hands the rose,
which means, like, you get notes sung at you
while you´re getting the rose.
-Wow. -It´s really extraordinary.
-I have a shameful thing about Boyz II Men in my past.
-Why? Do I want to know?
-Well, I don´t know.
Tell me if I should feel ashamed about it.
-Okay. Shame! Shame!
-Yeah, exactly. -Yeah.
-And then, we will get to "Game of Thrones,"
´cause I know we share a love of that.
All right, so I was my class treasurer in high school, okay?
-Oh.
-And I had to count the votes for what the prom song was.
And what it should have been was
"It´s So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday,"
and I faked the vote for something else.
[ Laughter, audience groans ]
-You were like the Russian hacker
of the music at your prom? -I hacked --
Yeah, yeah.
-That´s horrifying!
-And instead it was just a spoken word Donald Trump album.
-Aah! Aah!
-I feel bad. I´ve always felt bad.
-What was the song that you chose instead?
-A Van Morrison song.
It´s awful, yeah.
Talk about white privilege. -Honestly!
-Yeah. -Honestly!
You should have these guys on your show as reparations.
-Yeah, you´re right. I should.
And then I´ll introduce them and say,
"Now here to sing are Boyz II Men,"
and then they´ll just walk out in protest.
And they´ll be like, "Why don´t you [bleep]
get Van Morrison?"
-They will take a bended knee. They will take a bended knee.
-I owe them all roses. I owe them all roses.