Kerry Washington

I think we all have to be leaning into solution, like in little ways even.

Yeah.

Yes.

You know, like...

It's not an easy thing to do.

So I would say two things about that.

One is that I learned from two extraordinary women, Eve Ensler, who wrote The Vagina Monologues, and Jane Fonda.

And I used to be on a board, like the board, the V board, we called it, for The Vagina Monologues, which went from being a play to being a global movement to end violence against women.

And those two women really throughout my life have taught me that when you're feeling isolated, alone, and afraid, if you plug into community and community activism in particular, but when you plug into community, into like baking bread for somebody else or making cookies or driving somebody else's kid to school or just checking on a girlfriend who you haven't heard from in a long time, like plugging into community actually helps you feel better.

Like it being a part of something bigger than you actually is like a balm for your soul.

Yeah.

I remember doing one of our first, it was like our first all cast appearance on Good Morning America with the Scandal cast.

And none of them had done a lot of press before.

Right.

And I had done all these movies.

And so I was like, you guys, here's the number one thing to remember.

Because they came into the green room and they were like.

something was going on with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt or something.

And they came in the green room and they were like, do you mind if we ask you?

And I said, we'd rather not talk about that.