In 2016 Bellamy Young was featured on the cover of California Vibe Magazine, she was also interviewed about Scandal.
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Bellamy Young would be a perfect cover story for any issue of CVLUX. After all, she’s won a Critics’ Choice Award for her role as Mellie Grant on Scandal, her debut album, Far Away So Close, showcases a mountain of musical talent and she’s repeatedly being seen in the media for her activism. But Bellamy is a particularly perfect interview subject as we head into the holiday season. While reflecting upon her varied experiences in both life and entertainment, Bellamy genuinely couldn’t stop being thankful.
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The role had only two lines of dialogue in the pilot episode, but Bellamy was thrilled.
“Mellie Grant is the role of a lifetime,” she says of her being cast by Rhimes. Shonda was going around the table telling everyone their story for the season, “[Shonda] said ‘you’re going to be here for three episodes,’... and I died inside because I thought, ‘these people are so wonderful I just wanna be here forever!’”
She acted her heart out, really giving herself to the character of Mellie and to the material that the writers created.
“The only thing that I’ve gleaned over all these years is that your only power is that your story is your own, and to bring your lens, that specific truth is what makes it universal,” Bellamy advises. “The more honest you can be with your truth, with yourself, the more universal your art can become.”
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