The 41-year-old mother-of-two, ‘Scandal’ actress, Kerry Washington is on the cover of the new edition of Essence magazine, the ‘Woke 100’ issue. Kerry
The 41-year-old mother-of-two, ‘Scandal’ actress, Kerry Washington is on the cover of the new edition of Essence magazine, the ‘Woke 100’ issue. Kerry who just concluded her six-year-long role as presidential chief of staff ‘Olivia Pope’ on the ABC series, talks about the end of playing Olivia Pope, her involvement with the Time Up’s movement , and how Hollywood is changing, thanks to women speaking out.
“That’s been one of the most powerful parts, for me, of being involved with the Time’s Ups movement. We are becoming stronger as communities, as Black women, as larger circles of women of color, larger circles of women in Hollywood, larger circles of just people in Hollywood who give a shit,” she said.
On her Olivia Pope character on ‘Scandal’, she said, “I feel like whenever I play a character, I feel she comes into my life to teach me something. I’ve never had the privilege of playing a character for this long, but of the many things Olivia Pope has given me is this sense that anything’s possible, that there’s always a way through. I think it’s one of the reasons why I started a production company.”
Read her full interview here
