Kerry Washington
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Podcast Appearances
Like when I'm playing a character, I like to think about
how she's become who she is and how she thinks and how she lives in the world and how society impacts who she is.
So I do feel like I use some of my, I feel like such a nerd, I've been talking too long about this.
But I use some of my social science.
Sociology is more the study of society.
Anthropology is more indigenous cultures and historical culture, so not present-day society, but more the role of kind of how societies have evolved through time.
Anthropology has a little more ritual, like study of ritual.
NYU and Northwestern were the schools that had graduate degrees in performance studies that I admired and was interested in, but I didn't actually want to go to graduate school, so I tried to just skip ahead and do it in undergrad.
I finished in a degree in performance studies.
I got to actually, like, I wrote my own situation.
Yes, especially because I went to G-dub.
Yeah, people call me K. I just thought of that.