Kerry Washington

At the end of the scene, the very final line of that season was I get in a car, Joe Morton is sitting across from me, and he says, hi.

And I say, with a question mark at the end, dad?

Because he was my father on the show.

And he knew from the beginning, from his first phone call with Shonda Rhimes, he knew that he was going to be my dad.

I never revealed.

I didn't know until our table read of that episode.

So that was on purpose then.

It was incredible.

That would have been amazing.

Well, you mean in the movie, but not on set, right?

That was the thing.

I mean, I had a really great film career before that because I had been in these Oscar-nominated films.

I had a joke that if you hired me to play your wife, you would win an Oscar because I was with Jamie Foxx in Ray and I was in Last King of Scotland with Forrest Whitaker.

And so I had done... But nobody connected that the girl from Save the Last Dance was the girl from Ray.

I was kind of a character actor and it was sort of disappearing into these really fun...

very different films with accents from all over the world.

But TV is just different, especially before streaming, right?

Like TV was a different beast where all of a sudden I was in people's living rooms every single week.

Like how many people do you have in your life that you actually spend an hour with every week other than your shrink?

Not a lot.