Kerry Washington

But I have never thought of myself as a fighter, as a warrior, you know, and so to to get up every morning and train with these incredible martial artists and stunt coordinators to like really put my body in a place where I'm wearing that strength in my cells. was just a crazy journey.

It was so exciting to like, let the strength not just exist mentally, because Kyra, the character I play in Shadow Force, she's smart and she's emotionally strong, but she's also got guns, like guns and guns. And so like, yeah, like to become that person and to, You know, it's such a wonderful relationship. The mind body connection is so interesting. You talk about it a lot on this show.

It was so exciting to like, let the strength not just exist mentally, because Kyra, the character I play in Shadow Force, she's smart and she's emotionally strong, but she's also got guns, like guns and guns. And so like, yeah, like to become that person and to, You know, it's such a wonderful relationship. The mind body connection is so interesting. You talk about it a lot on this show.

And so for me to get to to really, really commit to trying to be as strong and fearless physically as I had become emotionally and spiritually. was very cool.

And so for me to get to to really, really commit to trying to be as strong and fearless physically as I had become emotionally and spiritually. was very cool.

Yeah, I mean, that's another great example, right? Is when you get on your knees in prayer, again, that's a physical embodiment of an emotional dynamic because there is inherent humility for being on your knees. So sometimes, like I'm a person who prays all the time. Like I pray in my car. I pray when I'm walking down the street. I pray when I'm cooking dinner.

Yeah, I mean, that's another great example, right? Is when you get on your knees in prayer, again, that's a physical embodiment of an emotional dynamic because there is inherent humility for being on your knees. So sometimes, like I'm a person who prays all the time. Like I pray in my car. I pray when I'm walking down the street. I pray when I'm cooking dinner.

But I do feel like there are times when it's really important for me to take that submissive posture and get on my knees just to remind myself that I'm not in control, that I'm not the ultimate power, that there's something bigger than me, that I can ask for help that's outside of me.

But I do feel like there are times when it's really important for me to take that submissive posture and get on my knees just to remind myself that I'm not in control, that I'm not the ultimate power, that there's something bigger than me, that I can ask for help that's outside of me.

So again, for me, that relationship between how we think, how we feel, and how it lives in the body is such a huge part of how I work as an actor and how I try to live my life. Yeah.

So again, for me, that relationship between how we think, how we feel, and how it lives in the body is such a huge part of how I work as an actor and how I try to live my life. Yeah.

So like you said I was in college and I was really struggling I have throughout my life struggled with an eating disorder and that was like the worst of it it was the that was the turning point where I really was like I need help like I can't fix this by myself and

So like you said I was in college and I was really struggling I have throughout my life struggled with an eating disorder and that was like the worst of it it was the that was the turning point where I really was like I need help like I can't fix this by myself and

For me, I knew that eating disorders existed. And I think I tried to play this game where I didn't want to fit into any easy diagnosis. So I was always kind of like... like transforming it and morphing it. And it would be like days of binging and then days of starving and then days of over-exercising and just kind of like, I felt like if I kept moving it, that I wasn't any simple sick person.

For me, I knew that eating disorders existed. And I think I tried to play this game where I didn't want to fit into any easy diagnosis. So I was always kind of like... like transforming it and morphing it. And it would be like days of binging and then days of starving and then days of over-exercising and just kind of like, I felt like if I kept moving it, that I wasn't any simple sick person.

I was just like trying to be my best me, but I was controlled and obsessed by feeling like I wasn't enough. Yeah. So the prayer for me was really, I think what I started to hear was that it was okay to ask for help. and that it was okay for me to seek healing.

I was just like trying to be my best me, but I was controlled and obsessed by feeling like I wasn't enough. Yeah. So the prayer for me was really, I think what I started to hear was that it was okay to ask for help. and that it was okay for me to seek healing.

I think for me, that journey started really, really, really early. And I talk about this a little bit in my memoir, but I was conceived with the help of a sperm donor. And that was something I didn't find out until I was in my forties. And it was pretty wild. I think my parents would have taken this secret to their graves if they could have.

I think for me, that journey started really, really, really early. And I talk about this a little bit in my memoir, but I was conceived with the help of a sperm donor. And that was something I didn't find out until I was in my forties. And it was pretty wild. I think my parents would have taken this secret to their graves if they could have.

And luckily they weren't able to, they were kind of forced to tell me, to share this with me.