Kerry Washington

I mean, my mom, who desperately did not want me to be an artist, because she's a professor of education and she was like, I just, I don't want you to starve.

You know, she just, the idea of a starving heart.

And I brought my parents with me the first time I was at the Emmys.

The first time I was nominated at the Emmys, I brought them and we were sitting at the governor's ball and my mom's like cutting into her steak and I was like, anybody starving?

Yeah.

That's really my one job.

Because you're not intimidated by the tangents.

Yeah, because you have to, in the scene work, let it go.

You have to be open to the exploration, but then also remember you got to land the plane.

So your first big break.

See, did you see that was magic.

Did you see that happen?

Oh my God.

I think, so I gave myself this year and in that year I booked my very first film, which was called Our Song, which is actually having its 25th anniversary this year.

It was this really tiny, scrappy, independent film.

I mean, our entire transpo department consisted of, like, four MetroCards.

And we all took the subway.

Rest in peace, MetroCards.

Yes, exactly, exactly.

We had no wardrobe department.