ABC/Nicole Wilder(NEW YORK) — Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes revealed earlier this week that she had changed the season finale just days before it is set to air.
Scott Foley, who plays Jake Ballard on the series, tells ABC Radio that he “heard it was just changed days ago too,” but has “no idea what was changed, [or] what she did in the editing room.”
“We didn’t shoot anything different so she might have rearranged scenes or taken a line out…I have no idea,” he continues. “I’m as anxious to see it as you are.”
Foley’s co-star Joe Morton, who plays Rowan Pope on the series, tells ABC Radio last minute switches are common on the series. In fact, it happened last week when Foley tried to give Franklin Russell, played by Brian White, a break during his interrogation by Quinn and Huck.
“When you got to this one scene where the two guys for instance do impressions of Rowan, well that was not in anybody’s script,” he reveals. “I didn’t even know that scene was shot. So a lot of that information is new. So whatever Shonda has done in the finale will be news to me when I see it.”
Still, Morton knows that unlike many fans, he doesn’t want his character to get killed off. Many fans feel that after all the trouble that Rowan and his secret spy agency B613 has done in Washington, it may be time for Olivia Pope’s father to get the ax.
“As far as I’m concerned he does not deserve to die,” he says. “In playing a villain, you can’t play a villain from the negative. You can only play a villain from the positive. So my point of view is that any villain…believes that whatever it is that they’re doing is making either their world, or the world in general, a better place. So no, Rowan doesn’t deserve to die.”
So what can fans expect from the season finale? Foley gives ABC Radio a major hint.
“What the writers have done this finale is really amazing because they’ve taken — and without getting into specifics, without ruining it for you — they’ve taken a lot of the conventions that you expect to see on Scandal and have gotten rid of them,” he explains. “They’ve taken people out of places that you usually see them and we don’t know where they’re going to end up. And it’s going to really open the door for what I think is going to be a fantastic fifth season.”
The season finale of Scandal airs Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern time on ABC.
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