Shonda Rhimes: I'm Not a Trailblazer
The Grey's Anatomy and Scandal boss, who has been praised for featuring diverse casts on her shows, accepted the Norman Lear Achievement Award at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, but insisted that "it's not trailblazing to write the world as it actually is."
The two are collaborating on America Divided, a political documentary series about inequality that is scheduled to premiere on Epix this fall.
First of all, [telling stories about] strong women and three-dimensional people of color is something Norman was doing 40 something years ago.
Introduced by How to Get Away with Murder star Viola Davis, Rhimes said she faced little pushback from ABC when pitching the characters of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) on Scandal or Annalise Keating (Davis) on Murder.