Kerry Washington

And I don't dance like that.

And I just, I thought I'm never going to be the kind of actor who's like on the cover of magazines.

I'm just gonna, I, my goal was to have a career where I could pay the bills and

do a few commercials a year, do a lot of theater, and just live a happy artist life.

So she really taught me to not be afraid to step into more.

And that was extraordinary.

And yes, I think there was, there is with her...

I don't know if she taught me how to be a fixer.

I think I brought a lot of that to her.

Like it was written that way.

I don't mean to say I invented it.

But I already understood the need to want to make things around me better.

And to help people.

Like that's in me.

It's a little bit of like an only child thing.

And maybe a little bit of my own codependency.

Like there is something in me that wants...

To help other people.

I mean, even that joke I made about like, if you hire me to play your wife, you'll win an Academy Award.

Like I do take a lot of pride in the fact that I think when I go home at night, I want to know not only that I did my best work as an actor, but I take a lot of pride in helping other actors do their best work across from me in the scene.