Kerry Washington

He's just stellar.

And he came on, he was like the one guest star that came on our show that I called home to mom and dad and was like,

oh my God, Joe Morton's on the show.

And I was never in scenes with him.

He was always in scenes with these other characters on the show.

And every table read, I'd be like, God, I really hope that we can do a scene together.

And he'd be like, me too, me too.

And I knew that he had been in talks to do Romeo and Juliet on Broadway, and he had dropped out of that to come do Scandal.

And I was like, he doesn't even get any scenes with number one.

Like, why did he drop out of this play on Broadway?

He's got no scenes with me.

Like, why did he do that?

And I just was super like, what's going on?

At the end of the scene, the very final line of that season was I get in a car, Joe Morton is sitting across from me, and he says, hi.

And I say, with a question mark at the end, dad?

Because he was my father on the show.

And he knew from the beginning, from his first phone call with Shonda Rhimes, he knew that he was going to be my dad.

I never revealed.

I didn't know until our table read of that episode.

So that was on purpose then.