Yet it took the creativity and innovation of Shonda Rhimes to turn the genre on its head.
Read on to discover the untold truth of Shonda Rhimes.
But this was no ordinary band.
“I grew up in a house filled with music.
She went on, saying that she was basically “a I-know-who-Duran-Duran-is kind of teenager.”
However, she added, “I just know what I like.”
Rhimes, however, was unashamed of herCrossroadsscreenplay.
“My goal was for 12 year olds to think it was brilliant.”
She advised others to avoid including these cliches in their writing.
She asked, “If you’ve seen it before, why would you do it again?”
Rhimes took toTwitterat the time to admit she was “very sad” about the show’s cancelation.
She continued, “The day after I arrived, 9/11 hit.”
After watching the horrific events unfold, she had an epiphany.
I went home and hired an adoption attorney.”
Yet she makes no apologies for wanting to be a mother and not necessarily a wife.
It took her some time to come to terms with what she was feeling.
“We’re all so conditioned to want it,” she said of marriage.
“I felt like there must be something wrong with me.
But the minute I said it out loud to my family, it was fantastic.”
I do not want a husband in my house."
I never do anything.
All I did was go to work and come home."
Given that she had multiple television shows to oversee, that’s certainly understandable.
She added, “And so that’s what taught me how to decide to manage my time.”
“I have many more stories to tell,” she added.
Shonda Rhimes herself had a special affinity for the character, and that’s no coincidence.
“TheGrey’s AnatomySeason 10 finale is locked and loaded,” Rhimestweetedin May 2014.
“Goodbye, my dearest Yang (who is based on my ACTUAL Cristina btw).
I’m going home.”
She and her bestie, she divulged, still speak every day.
“Even though we live 1,000 miles apart, she’s still my Person.”
“I mean, things gotweird,” she recalled.
Women she hardly knew “gushed” over her, while men held lengthy conversations with her.
Ultimately, Rhimes came to feel “like a chunky spy in a thinner world.”
“We are making stars out of people because they are brainiacs, not athletic or pretty.”
She wound up diving intoDoctor Whoand did not regret it.
“I love sci-fi,” she declared.
“WithDoctor WhoI loved the idea of time travel, the idea that he could regenerate.
As a television writer?
“Which is how they got a dog,” Rhimes joked.
“It’s so annoying,” Rhimes toldSalon.
She added, “Which is weird, becauseGrey’s Anatomyis pretty dark.”
DescribingScandalas a “guilty pleasure,” she toldVulture, “just sounds like a backhanded compliment.”
“That’s how hard the work is.”
