ABC/Nicole Wilder(NEW YORK) — On the last season finale of Scandal, viewers saw President Fitzgerald Grant kick first lady Mellie Grant out of the White House. Still, viewers didn’t see how the first lady felt about it all. Bellamy Young, who plays the first lady, told ABC Radio what she believes her character was thinking.
“As he told me that he was kicking me out of this White House, the first thought that Mellie had was, ‘He is going to call Olivia as soon as that door closes behind me,'” she says. “Mellie does not harbor any illusion that that is not happening in real time as she is walking down that hall.”
When the Emmy Award-nominated series returns in September, what will happen to Mellie after winning the Senate seat, but losing her husband, again, to Olivia Pope?
“I think Mellie definitely has her eye on her personal time in the Oval. I think it’s been both a dream come true and the most potent frustration for her to be in the White House but not in the Oval Office,” she says.
“I feel like she and Fitz made a deal a long time ago, right, like you first and then you’ll help me. I’ll help you and then you’ll help me and this is what we’ll do together,” Young continues. “Because they’re terrific partners, you know? For whatever you can say about the failures of their marriage, they are outstanding allies and partners.”
Scandal fans had a scare last season when they thought Jake Ballard, played by Scott Foley, died after being stabbed multiple times. Young says like many actors, she fears her imminent death on the show could come at any minute.
“There is not an actor alive since Game of Thrones that does not wake up every morning worrying that the writers are going to think that it’s the smartest, cleverest thing in the world to kill them off in some blaze of glory,” the Treximet spokesperson tells ABC Radio. “No, we all worry constantly. Josh Malina, every time we go to a table read, sits down, reads the last page first. Because he wants to know if he’s breathing, he’s talking.”
Scandal returns for its fifth season September 24 at 9 p.m. Eastern.
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