Kerry Washington

But it was really more like, I mean, there was the first sketch I was allowed to do was actually a scene about whether or not I was 13 when I started doing the show.

So the only the only sketch they would let me do in the beginning was should I lose my virginity or not?

And it was a whole sketch about like my really cute boyfriend who's kind of pressuring me and I don't know if I should or shouldn't.

And then the cool part, and this was actually incredible acting training, was that we would, the problems of the show were unresolved and we would stay in character after the show and the audience would like solve our problems.

We would ask the audience for advice.

So they would like be in conversation.

Yeah, we stayed in character.

And doesn't that mean the show is still going?

No, like the show would end and then we do a Q&A, but our Q&A would be in character.

And sometimes I would be playing like more than one character.

So I'd have like a baseball hat for the girl who wasn't sure she should lose her virginity.

And then like a red scarf for the girl who was like...

needed to tell her brother to stop selling drugs.

So we had all these different, like, you know, conflict issues.

And I got to develop character backstory and learn to be spontaneous.

And I found my yes and while doing sex education.

Didn't you say this was like... Yeah, we performed at like schools and community centers.

I have great parents.

I was really into acting.

And my mom had read that there were auditions for this.