Fans of the ABC series got an unexpected twist on Thursday’s show, as a major character was killed off the series.
The storyline death marks the second time a key character was killed off, as crisis management Harrison Wright, played by Columbus Short, died in a 2014 episode after getting on the bad side of Rowan Pope (Joe Morton).
Short, who had appeared in 47 episodes across three seasons on the show, was written off the series after domestic violence allegations and an admitted drug crisis.
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Mellie Grant’s chief of staff Elizabeth North, plated by Portia de Rossi, was murdered on Thursday’s program, amid a scene that took place in a pow-wow with Grant (Bellamy Young) and rivals the Mystery Woman (Zoe Perry) and Peus (David Warshofsky). After Grant resisted the duo’s initial threats, the Mystery Woman fatally impaled North with a golf club.
Portia, speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, said she made the decision to exit the hit series, ‘but not because [she] no longer wanted to be part of the show.
‘It was more because I found a great business opportunity I wanted to pursue that was taking my interest away from acting and a career I’ve had for 20-plus years and putting it elsewhere that was very timing consuming,’ the actress said.
Portia said she went to the show’s creator and executive producer, Shonda Rhimes, to ask her ‘if it would be OK’ to leave the show, and Rhimes ‘was nothing but supportive and wished me luck in my business venture and was gracious and lovely about it.’
Source: Major character killed off on ABC’s Scandal | Daily Mail Online
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