Kerry Washington

Yeah, I was not a producer in the beginning of Scandal.

I became a producer later on in the life of the show.

And director.

Yes, and director.

But my favorite example of not knowing was we had a guest star named Joe Morton

And Joe Morton is an actor I'm a huge fan of.

He did an incredible John Sayles film called Brother From Another Planet.

He's just stellar.

And he came on, he was like the one guest star that came on our show that I called home to mom and dad and was like,

oh my God, Joe Morton's on the show.

And I was never in scenes with him.

He was always in scenes with these other characters on the show.

And every table read, I'd be like, God, I really hope that we can do a scene together.

And he'd be like, me too, me too.

And I knew that he had been in talks to do Romeo and Juliet on Broadway, and he had dropped out of that to come do Scandal.

And I was like, he doesn't even get any scenes with number one.

Like, why did he drop out of this play on Broadway?

He's got no scenes with me.

Like, why did he do that?

And I just was super like, what's going on?