Although giving away Season 3 spoilers is strictly forbidden on the set of "Scandal," Darby Stanchfield, who plays crisis manager Abby Whelan, gives a few tantalizing glimpses of what's coming our way.
For instance, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) isn't going to be the only one in deep trouble in the Oct. 3 Season 3 premiere.
"You think Olivia is in trouble and we are just going to slap her photo on the board," Stanchfield says, referring to the board where Pope & Associates posts pictures of clients in crisis. "It's not like we handle it in a predictable 'case of the week' way," she says. "There isn't only one public scandal with Olivia at the center. It ends up being like five things instead of just one."
CRISIS MANAGEMENT: Kerry Washington, Darby Stanchfield and Katie Lowes face a new season of betrayals on ABC's "Scandal."
Stanchfield, 42, takes a dramatic pause. "Twitter is going to explode."
Since the social media Web site has proven a key ingredient in the success of the show — the entire cast, led by series star Washington, live-tweets through each episode.
Twitter fans want Abby and David (Joshua Malina) to hook up again.
Stanchfield and Malina are great friends and traveled to the Monte Carlo TV Festival together this summer to promote the show, which is wildly popular in Europe.
How surprised was Stanchfield when she learned that Rosen was the mole?
"There are three kinds of people that Abby can not stand — cheaters, liars and whores," she says.
Rosen undermined the Gladiators — that's Olivia's team — by helping a double-agent out to destroy the President. In the end, Rosen betrayed the double-agent, and furthered his own career.
"So now he wears a white hat, which means that Abby and David are in new territory," she says.
As Season 3 opens, some scenes pick up immediately from last season's shock-producing final episode; others flash forward.
There are also plenty of scenes that flash backward, giving insight into all of the characters' backgrounds, including Abby's.
As for interesting backgrounds, Stanfield's is one of the most unusual. The daughter of a crab fisherman, she grew up in the town of Dutch Harbor on the Aleutian Islands, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Anchorage, or a week by boat from Seattle.
She describes it as a town that had one gas station, one grocery store, one pizza parlor, and snows 3/4 of the year. "I ended up acting because I grew up pretending and making things up, just for something to do," she says.
After the family moved to Mercer Island, off of Seattle, she attended the University of Puget Sound, graduating in l993 with a degree in communications.
Being out of the sunlight for much of her childhood may have given her skin a beautiful translucent white glow, but it didn't help with much else.
"It was culture shock when we moved near Seattle," she says. "I never saw 'The Brady Bunch,' never saw 'Gilligan's Island' I didn't know anything about pop culture."
Now she's in the center of a pop-culture phenomenon. How was she cast by creator Shonda Rhimes?
"The good old-fashioned way," she says. "I auditioned twice. It was surreal. When I was finished, Shonda stared at me for 30 seconds and I just stared back at her, and neither of us said a word. She probably figured I had the guts."
In person Stanfield, 42, looks more like a high-fashion model than a tough crisis manager. Her formerly straight hair is fluffy and wavy.
"They changed my hair and bumped up my fashion," she says, with a smile that indicates she is thrilled about the stylish new look.
"We decided we should keep her simple and plain, but with new accessories and a fun wardrobe," she says.
"Abby has been pretty black-and-white, but she's getting softer."
The actress is aware hat her fans want to see her turbo-charged after Rosen betrayed her, though.
"They want to see Abby pull out her Glock and use it," she says, raising an eyebrow.
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