Kerry Washington
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
My first paid acting gig, I played a cheerleader.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
I think I was like cheerleader number two.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
In an ABC after school special called My Special Angel.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
I may have done a PSA or something before that.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
So, really, the reason I came up with that idea was because I love producing.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
I fell in love with producing at Scandal, and the first film I produced was a film called Confirmation for HBO, where I played Anita Hill.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
And then I fell in love with it.
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And so they came to me to do this play on Broadway, the producers.
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And I said, sure, I'll be in it if I can help produce.
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But on Broadway, producing really just means finding money.
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"RE-RELEASE: Kerry Washington"
You get to be a creative producer as well.
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But I was like, oh, I don't do the financing thing.