Scandal’s Bellamy Young Says Playing Mellie Has Been 'Transformational'

Scandal‘s Mellie Grant — first lady, wronged wife, grieving mother, leader of the free world — can be steely, ambitious, infuriating and vulnerable, sometimes in a single speech.
Bellamy Young, who plays the ex-FLOTUS turned into POTUS, reveals she and Mellie are actually not alike at all in PEOPLE’s All Seven Seasons of Scandal special edition.
“I couldn’t be any less like Mellie,” says Young, 48. “To play her has changed me — it really