Here's an interview that Matt Webb Mitovich did with Tony Goldwyn about tonight's episode, episode 1x06 "The Trail". Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some scoop on the flashbacks that will be in tonight's episode and how they will impact Fitz's character development:
TVLINE | Was reading this week’s flashback script your first exposure to Fitz’s backstory?
As I’m sure you’ve heard, [series creator] Shonda [Rhimes] didn’t tell any of us much, so I created a whole biography for Fitz, and it was partially correct. For example, I decided that I had been the governor of Pennsylvania. [Laughs] But then there was the limousine scene where Mellie says, “I’ll take the kids back to Santa Barbara,” and that was the first time I went, “Whoa! California.” And in terms of the backstory with Olivia, in my original thinking I had us meeting before my campaign, but… Cyrus hiring her because the campaign was in terrible trouble came from reading the script.
TVLINE | How might the flashbacks shape people’s opinions of Fitz, whom some might be writing off as a philanderer?
Well, that’s the first judgment people make. I had friends come up to me after seeing the pilot – “Oh, you’re a sleazy president. You’re a bad guy, yuck.” And by the third or fourth they’re going, “Aww, he’s in love with her. We want them to find a way to be together!” So I think the flashback episode will [reveal] a man who is in what you could call a successful marriage, but a troubled marriage, someone who ends up by happenstance falling in love with a colleague, in a once-in-a-lifetime kind of way. The audience — unless someone has a profound moral judgment, and I respect that – will identify with Fitz and Olivia, understand the transgression they made and, more than that, want them to be together since they’re soulmates. And yet [their situation] is impossible.
TVLINE | Did you see any of the other twists coming – like, for example, what’s still to come with the blackmail tape?
No. In fact, when I read the script where Cyrus says, “Listen to this…,” I went to Mark Wilding, who is one of Shonda’s writing partners, and said, “Are you guys going to write me out? You’re going to kill Fitz off? Am I getting assassinated, impeached or what?” I said there’s no way you can paint me out of this corner. He said, “Don’t worry, it’s going to be really interesting.” So yeah, I didn’t see that coming at all.
Link to the full article:Scandal Preview -- Season 1 Episode 6 -- Tony Goldwyn - TVLine
TVLINE | Was reading this week’s flashback script your first exposure to Fitz’s backstory?
As I’m sure you’ve heard, [series creator] Shonda [Rhimes] didn’t tell any of us much, so I created a whole biography for Fitz, and it was partially correct. For example, I decided that I had been the governor of Pennsylvania. [Laughs] But then there was the limousine scene where Mellie says, “I’ll take the kids back to Santa Barbara,” and that was the first time I went, “Whoa! California.” And in terms of the backstory with Olivia, in my original thinking I had us meeting before my campaign, but… Cyrus hiring her because the campaign was in terrible trouble came from reading the script.
TVLINE | How might the flashbacks shape people’s opinions of Fitz, whom some might be writing off as a philanderer?
Well, that’s the first judgment people make. I had friends come up to me after seeing the pilot – “Oh, you’re a sleazy president. You’re a bad guy, yuck.” And by the third or fourth they’re going, “Aww, he’s in love with her. We want them to find a way to be together!” So I think the flashback episode will [reveal] a man who is in what you could call a successful marriage, but a troubled marriage, someone who ends up by happenstance falling in love with a colleague, in a once-in-a-lifetime kind of way. The audience — unless someone has a profound moral judgment, and I respect that – will identify with Fitz and Olivia, understand the transgression they made and, more than that, want them to be together since they’re soulmates. And yet [their situation] is impossible.
TVLINE | Did you see any of the other twists coming – like, for example, what’s still to come with the blackmail tape?
No. In fact, when I read the script where Cyrus says, “Listen to this…,” I went to Mark Wilding, who is one of Shonda’s writing partners, and said, “Are you guys going to write me out? You’re going to kill Fitz off? Am I getting assassinated, impeached or what?” I said there’s no way you can paint me out of this corner. He said, “Don’t worry, it’s going to be really interesting.” So yeah, I didn’t see that coming at all.
Link to the full article:Scandal Preview -- Season 1 Episode 6 -- Tony Goldwyn - TVLine
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