TMC
04-17-2014, 10:26 PM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/17/how-scandal-star-bellamy-young-transformed-mellie-into-fans-favorite-character.html
The First Lady has become the most complex and fun character on the ABC soap, says Kevin Fallon. He adds: "Some of it had to do with fatigue over the callously brazen affair between the show’s protagonists, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn). Much of it came as heartbreaking details about the ambitious—if embattled—character’s past came to surface and helped explain away the malicious wrath that seemed to be her guiding light. But, more than anything, the shift came as we all had the realization that the actress bringing Mellie (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-gray/mellie-grant-scandal-antihero_b_5166422.html) to life, Bellamy Young, is just damned good at her job.”
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#LxKYmYEUfBppeXwE.99
The First Lady has become the most complex and fun character on the ABC soap, says Kevin Fallon. He adds: "Some of it had to do with fatigue over the callously brazen affair between the show’s protagonists, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) and President Fitzgerald Grant (Tony Goldwyn). Much of it came as heartbreaking details about the ambitious—if embattled—character’s past came to surface and helped explain away the malicious wrath that seemed to be her guiding light. But, more than anything, the shift came as we all had the realization that the actress bringing Mellie (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-gray/mellie-grant-scandal-antihero_b_5166422.html) to life, Bellamy Young, is just damned good at her job.”
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#LxKYmYEUfBppeXwE.99