00:00Yesterday's big Shondaland shoot was so much fun. It was great to have all the
00:09cast members there. It was a little bit of chaos and it was exciting. I don't
00:13think we've ever actually done anything like that before with all of our cast
00:16members. It probably might have been one of the only times we've all been
00:20together, all of us together in the same room. So we had a blast and it was this
00:26moment, I think for a lot of us, some of us got emotional, to sort of realize what
00:31we've all accomplished and what was going on. People always ask me what
00:35inspires me and I never am able to answer it adequately. I sort of always say if I
00:41knew what my inspiration was, if I knew what inspired me, I would be able to
00:44bottle it, sell it, and retire to an island somewhere. I have no idea where my
00:49inspiration comes from. I feel like I was born with whatever it is that makes me
00:53love to write and I don't know from whence it comes. I think what I love most
00:59about my job and what I get to do and getting to write these characters is that
01:04I feel like I'm telling the truth. You know, people always say, you know, you're
01:09saying something or you're putting out a message and I'm not. I feel like these
01:13women exist. I know them. They are my friends. They are people I know. They are me.
01:17They are my mother, my sister, my best friends. They exist and for people to
01:23know they exist and to get to see them on television gives them relevance versus
01:28people sort of believing that they're, I don't know, fairy tales or something. This
01:33idea that, you know, women of color like this don't exist is really upsetting to me.
01:38So I feel like it's wonderful to see them on television.
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