Shonda Rhimes Cozies Up To Her Leading Ladies For Powerful Cover Shoot 

Thu, September 3, 2015 10:52am EDT by Emily Longeretta

Talk about girl power! The new cover of ‘Entertainment Weekly’ features Shonda Rhimes, the head of TGIT, along with her leading ladies — Ellen Pompeo, Kerry Washington, and Viola Davis . . . and it’s stunning.

If anyone knows how to get what they want done and make good TV, it’s these four women! Shonda Rhimes, the powerhouse behind ABC’s 

, surrounded herself with the women of the shows that we’re obsessing over: Ellen Pompeo (Meredith in 

“I was talking to an actress who’s pregnant and really worried about telling her bosses, and I said, ‘Yeah, when I told my boss I was pregnant, she literally jumped up and down in my trailer.’ I don’t know if there’s a male show­ runner who would do that,” Kerry, 38, told 

about working with Shonda, and we have to agree — she’s probably right.

The magazine also released a few other covers of Shonda’s world, including one of Ellen wearing nothing but red pumps and an open lab coat; another of Tony Goldwyn, Kerry and Bellamy Young (

Shonda just dealt with one of the biggest losses on her shows this past year when Patrick Dempsey was killed off of 

. Now, when the show returns, it will be after a year-long time jump — so that Ellen wouldn’t have to play a mourning woman week after week.

“I couldn’t imagine a world in which Meredith could go a

months,” Shonda told our sister site, TVLine. “I needed time to pass for her to even be in a place where I felt like she could have a

.” Shonda also added she couldn’t even go to set during the final scenes. “It was brutal. I found it incredibly painful to write and incredibly painful to

. I didn’t go to a single moment of the filming because I was like, ‘I’m just going to stand there and cry like an idiot.’”

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