Kerry Washington joins THR's AwardsChatter podcast, where she reflects on early films like 2004's 'Ray,' why she 'wanted to quit acting,' filming 'American Son' in just 4.5 days, how 'Scandal' came with an added burden and more
' soapy drama series opened up a whole new world for her when it debuted in 2012, making her the first black female lead of a primetime network series in 37 years, since. "There was a pressure," she says now, two years since it went off the air. "I knew that ifdidn't work, there was the potential that it would be another 30 to 40 years before somebody took a 'chance' on giving a woman of color the opportunity to be the lead of her own show.
Simpson Street, named after the block in the Bronx where her mother grew up, has provided Washington with her best showcases ever since: the part of, for which she received acting and producing Emmy noms; the 2018 one-act Broadway play, which explored tensions between white cops and the black community; and, over the past year, two projects for which she is now in serious Emmy contention: the Netflix TV movie adaptation...
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