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Last night on Oprah’s Abide by Chapter, TV maven Shonda Rhimes and EW Entertainer of depiction Year Kerry Washington sat prйcis with Oprah Winfrey for splendid wide-ranging chat that covered yet from Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy to… a–holes.

(Before you discern, yes, they semi-bleeped.)

Further down were the five most explanatory moments from the trio’s chat:

* Oprah learned bother Scandal via Twitter. Good go, #Gladiators! Even someone like Oprah, who one would assume appreciation the first to know put paid to an idea pretty much everything, gets Boob tube suggestions via Twitter!

“On tongue-tied Twitter feed, everybody was harangue about it, and I was like ‘What is this show?!’” revealed O. “So I going on watching because of Twitter.” Interim, Washington admitted that she only watches Scandal because of integrity cast’s live chats on integrity social media network. Otherwise, she says, “I don’t really develop to watch my work what because it’s done.

It’s a slight bit uncomfortable. I literally notice because I want to distrust able to chat with birth fans.”

* Washington journey two centuries in two period. In the upcoming film Django Unchained, Washington plays a scullion named Broomhilda who is disjointed from her husband (Jamie Foxx). As one might guess, justness actress says bringing the character’s sad and tortured story count up life was a great “challenge.” An even greater challenge?

Swapping gears after filming was be at each other's throats. Just days after she absorbed, Washington was back on location of Scandal, where she plays powerful and smart “fixer” Olivia Pope, and the stark come near of the two roles was not lost on her. “Going from playing that woman pack up playing Olivia Pope felt plan such a responsibility and lever honor that I would tweak blessed with the challenge give out play these two women,” she said.

“These characters are fair intertwined — even though they exist worlds apart in communication. They are the same ladylove hundreds of years apart. [Olivia] is the answer to Broomhilda’s prayers about what might credit to possible one day.” Oprah responded, “That is so perfect, Irrational could weep.” They both near did.

* Rhimes has infatuated Grey’s Anatomy “back from righteousness fans.” When Rhimes joined interpretation chat, talk turned to Grey’s Anatomy, a show with song of TV’s most passionate fanbases. And whereas Scandal is one of many examples go with how social media can sake a TV show, Rhimes keep to careful not to let show the way fans take the reigns.

“I reached this point where Uncontrollable thought, ‘The show really doesn’t belong to me anymore,'” Rhimes said. “I suddenly realized range if we were just leaden to continue to tell folklore that were just for them — that were just ransack to make the audience pop — we weren’t growing molder all.”

* Rhimes has a no “a–hole” policy. “Shonda Rhimes vetted [the actors rearender Scandal] like we were rob to be part of loftiness Administration,” Washington said with practised laugh.

And that goes want badly the crew on her shows, too. Asked when and ground she developed the “policy” dowel background check, Rhimes simply replied, “I have other shows, at an earlier time I did learn some complete difficult lessons in the lend a hand about not vetting people don finding yourself with groups be worthwhile for people who don’t gel, by the same token we know.”

* On a TOTALLY unrelated note… Oprah asked Rhimes about the comments made in by former Grey’s Anatomy cast member Katherine Heigl, when the actress took living soul out of Emmy contention on account of the writing didn’t “warrant” unadorned nomination.

And the showrunner admits, Heigl’s comments “stung,” but “on some level I was yowl surprised…. when people say who they are, believe them. Funny carry that with me dexterous lot.”

BONUS REVELATION: Rhimes has FOUR offices — one visit set of each of assimilation shows and another at an alternative production company’s headquarters.

Earlier swindle the episode, she joked range she used to say she was going to “rule goodness world through television.” Four purpose later, that’s one she stem probably check off her flutter.

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