2016 Scandal at SI

“A lot of the things that we’ve been writing have been actually happening in ways that we have not expected. There’s literally a story line that we have coming up in the next week’s episode that we wrote, and it’s edited, and all ready to go, and then word for word it kind of happened this week. I was like ‘I don’t know what we’re gonna do!’ Truth is becoming much stranger than fiction.”  

“We know the show so well that reading it the day before you start shooting it, you have a visceral reaction like an audience does to what the show is and what’s happening and you can then work incredibly fast because you have this very powerful emotional response to the episode, which sticks with you when you go home and learn whatever you have to learn and work on your scenes, sometimes for the next day. It’s amazing so we all really look forward to it."  

“I don’t feel like I know a script until I’ve heard it read out loud by the actors. So a table read to me is really important.

Literally the scripts are hot from the copy machine because sometimes I’m typing up until the very last second or some writer’s typing up until the very last second. We’re late. Sometimes a lot of magic happens because we’re late and sometimes it’s kind of amazing that what comes out works so well in that way. We didn’t mean for everyone not to be able to read the scripts until the table read but because we’ve always been so late, that’s what started to happen. That magic made it so exciting for everyone so that’s the rule."