Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFrom Peg Bundy (“Married… With Children”) to Gemma Teller Morrow (“Sons of Anarchy”), Katey Sagal has played strong-willed characters before.
But she doesn’t believe she’s ever played someone like Annie “Rebel” Bello.“I know I’ve played some very hard women, but she’s hard for all of the right reasons.
Her reasoning is to empower people to stand up and talk,” Sagal tells Variety. In the new ABC drama “Rebel,” from “Grey’s Anatomy” showrunner Krista Vernoff and inspired by the real life of Erin Brockovich, Sagal’s title character is a blue-collar legal advocate — who doesn’t actually hold a law degree.
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