Who is hollis doyle scandal

By Daniel D'Addario. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Over the years, Scandal has thrown a lot of characters our way, so if you were a little confused when you saw a familiar face crop up on Thursday's episode, I totally can't blame you. But if you didn't, you're probably wondering, who is Hollis Doyle? There are so many villains in Shonda Rhimes' version of Washington D.

After a long absence from the White House, he's back But before we get into that, let's back it up a little bit. I was in almost all of Season 2. I came back once in Season 3. Season 4 came, and nothing in that. Then they called me up and said Hollis Doyle was coming back. Shonda Rhimes and the writers decided to parallel—and satirize, and comment on—the election.

So they kind of bent Hollis a little bit and turned him into this Trump-like figure. As Hollis ran, his politics became very Trumpian. They made him into this during the election season. Unfortunately, that parallel world was in our faces every day. I would watch some of the things he did: how he related to the public, the style in which he was speaking to the audience at campaign spots and in debates. Hollis was always a large and very colorful character, but he was not so… blasting… in your face.

He was a bit more reserved. He was contentious, and he would run things from behind the scenes, but he became more of an extrovert—more of a person who really loved the limelight and pushed the volume up about 25 notches. Well, yes. I always took delight in playing this part. I love this part. But in terms of having some political edge to it, that was fun.