Kerry Washington

Yes!

Great film.

So I was like—

I was like the good luck charm.

Like if you hire me to play your wife, you'll win an Academy Award, Forrest Whitaker, Jamie Foxx.

So I wasn't hesitant to do television because I was starting to see that there were these incredible women like Glenn Close was doing damages.

And, you know, you were starting to see it, that there were opportunities for women to play antiheroes and

have like more rich experience in television and movie stars were doing more TV.

And so I wanted to read the script.

I was like, if it's great, I'll consider it.

And I read it and I was like, oh, it was one of those things where like I threw the script across the room because I was like, this is, I have to play her.

It's for me.

Like, no, I have to.

the unfortunate thing where they were like 10 other actresses who felt the same way.

And so we all auditioned and auditioned.

And did you have to come in and come in and come in?

I met with her first because I was at a certain place in my career.

I could do a meeting first.

So I met with her and I remember getting off the elevator and there was a huge sign that said Shonda land.

And I was like, Oh, I don't know about this.