it's written by my dear friend ramla muhammad, who was a writer on scandal and a writer on little firesd now this is her show, and i think it's important for me to tell stories about black women who are three dimensional, our lead actress is extraordinary. she is balancing her career and her family and her kids. and i love that about the character, because with olivia pope, sometimes you were like, who are her friends on this show? you really see her full, rich personal life and her career. i'm really excited about it. >> that's fantastic. you have projects behind the scenes on camera. how do you decide where to invest your time? >> when you look at these three shows, there's a real sense of justice, right? we're dealing with people who are navigating ideas of justice and belonging, of community. i think there's also some element of healing that we're really drawn to. we really are invested in kind of looking at people as human beings in all their complexity and figuring out how we heal and how we love and how we move forward. >> the last time we spoke, you talked about growing up in th