Shonda Rhimes has launched TV superstars before — such as the entire cast of “Grey’s Anatomy,” led by Ellen Pompeo. But even she was caught off guard by the uproar earlier this year when Netflix an…
can reveal exclusively. And “Bridgerton” will return for Season 2 in 2022. These are among the many reasons Rhimes has been selected asWhen asked what she sees as her next frontier, Rhimes casually mentions that she’s learning to play the cello. The cello?
Rhimes is a revolutionary figure in television. By depicting on her shows the world as it actually is — casting women and people of color to play doctors; representing women’s sexuality as assertive, not slutty; showing LGBTQ characters as three-dimensional human beings — she transformed TV during her time at ABC.to have to say it,” she says. “We changed the faces that you see on television.”
In an interview, Rhimes’ longtime producing partner, Betsy Beers, speaks of the “stress” of that period. “We’re both perfectionists, so there’s that,” she says. “But when it’s a new deal and when there are a lot of eyeballs on your new deal, I think there is an added pressure to produce. It takes a while, and you just hope that going out of the gate, you do something which is worth the wait.”
She continues to have soaring ambitions for Shondaland, not only as a content company but as a media company — with its growing podcast business, the Shondaland website and even consumer products, such as her partnership with Dove. “Everybody at Netflix understands that storytelling is at the center of everything that we do,” Rhimes says, “but that there are other ways to tell stories.”
At the time of our interviews, Rhimes exhibits an easy, light aspect — one that seemingly wasn’t there during the days when every episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” was an event, and every utterance from the cast caused a detonation. “I remember the frenzy,” Rhimes says. “You’d go out in public with them and you’d think, ‘Oh, my God, our skin is going to be pulled off!’ It was just crazy.”
She wasn’t drawn to television or movies then. “I wanted to be a novelist,” she says — specifically, she wanted to be Toni Morrison. Growing up in the 1980s, Rhimes watched Eddie Murphy become “the king of comedy,” and saw Whoopi Goldberg “ruling Broadway.” Local hero Oprah Winfrey was in nearby Chicago, starting her ascent to cultural domination. “There was a moment where I suddenly looked around and felt like this could be a career,” Rhimes says.
Lowes is deeply involved in the Shondaland community, and not only as an actor: She hosts the company’s podcast, “Katie’s Crib,” about her adventures in parenting. While shooting the “Scandal” pilot in 2011, Lowes quickly became close with Rhimes and Beers, she says, and would regale them with “babysitting horror stories” about her day job working for a family “who didn’t believe in diapers.
“I don’t think she did anything different than what any guy on Wall Street’s done,” Rhimes continues. “None of them have done any time, and she’s been in jail for quite a while. Not to say she didn’t do anything wrong! I’m just saying: Gender did play a part.”
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