Claire Donald
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She wasn't secretly maternal.
She didn't change her mind.
She didn't get rewritten into a softer version of herself.
Also, really quickly, because I forgot to mention this before, it kind of made female friendship cool.
You're my person.
You're my person.
And people are like, that's, it never been really talked about on TV.
Right.
And it was also like Shonda wrote these female friendships in a way where it's like they were still competing with each other.
Yes.
And, like, encouraging each other and calling each other out for things.
But they weren't, like, mean girls to each other.
Not at all.
Women competing with each other without being villains.
Before Grey's, female competition on TV was often framed as catty or villainous, but Grey's made it about ambition.
Women could want power and that could be okay.
Wow.
Like, what a concept.
What?
I, watching her in the pilot, she's so, what a phenomenal actress.