![]() ![]() And there is that I-don’t-know-who-to-root-for gray area that Shonda is so good at playing in. There is steamy intimacy and interesting relationships. And then there are complicated, human, strong women everywhere you look. I don’t know how Shonda taps into that, but she does. ![]() There’s this sort of need for more information, and you can’t get enough. KL: The basic thing that makes the Shonda sauce - and it doesn’t matter the medium: miniseries, series, cable, streaming, whatever - it’s this: You can’t read the scripts fast enough, can’t flip the pages fast enough. VV: And what were your thoughts about the script? I mean, when Jeff Perry is at the table read, you are getting a $350 Broadway performance. And I could see that the other people were used to table reads that are quiet and serious, but we come to play and have fun. We started the table read, and we were hooting and hollering and banging on the table. It was amazing to walk into the first table read for Inventing Anna, and there’s Jeff Perry and Kate Burton, Anna Deavere Smith, me Tom Verica has directed a lot of Shonda’s shows and even a lot of the same behind-the-scenes people who were involved on Scandal. KATIE LOWES: What I think is so cool about being able to have been on multiple Shonda shows is that there’s a vibe and an enthusiasm that comes with it. VALENTINA VALENTINI: There are quite a few other Shondaland alums in Inventing Anna. Shondaland caught up with Lowes to break down that connection, and to dive deeper into the surrealness of playing someone so close to a situation that is still unfolding, filming the series’ crazy scenes in Morocco, and teaming up again with so many Shondaland alums, including director Nzingha Stewart. “I felt an immediate empathic connection to her and felt like I could do a good job understanding where she comes from and what she went through,” says Lowes. Not only from the Vanity Fair essay, but from Inventing Anna producer Jessica Pressler’s New York magazine article that first broke the story on Anna Delvey - and that serves as the inspiration for the series, which is a fictionalized retelling of events - and from a deep dive into Williams’ Instagram feed. ![]() And when she comes knocking more than once, you’re like, ‘I hope the acting gods look favorably upon me!’”ĭespite the nerves, Lowes felt a connection to Williams immediately. Because when Shonda comes knocking, all you want to do is a good job. “I was so excited,” gushes Lowes, “and then so terrified. Months later, in 2019, however, Rhimes did call Lowes to tell her that, yes, there was going to be a part for her in Rhimes’ new show. But, like, call me if you want me to play waitress No. I just didn’t think there was any way that lightning strikes again. And then she saw a picture of Williams, who famously penned an essay for Vanity Fair that exposed how Delvey organized a lavish trip to Morocco for herself, Williams, and their friends - and then left Williams with a $62,000 hotel bill to pay for all on her own. Being a native New Yorker, Lowes had heard rumblings of the tale, but when it was announced that Delvey’s rise and fall was going to become a Netflix series courtesy of Shondaland, Lowes immediately looked up more details and realized that there were parts for women in their late 20s and 30s. Lowes remembers hearing about Shondaland optioning the rights to the hard-to-believe-it’s-true true story of con woman Delvey, who posed as a wealthy German heiress but was really born Anna Sorokin in her home country of Russia. The Women of 'Inventing Anna': Alexis Floyd. ![]()
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