Kerry Washington

I mean, it was...

It was an incredible experience because we were stealing shots on the subway.

We didn't have permits.

But it was a story of these three girls growing up in Brooklyn, and I wanted this part so badly.

I learned to be in a marching band to be in the movie because it was about a summer in these three girls' lives in Brooklyn that are all part of this marching band.

It was the best experience.

When I was a kid, we lived in this high rise that was across the water from LaGuardia Airport.

And we were like in a flight path where at the 12th floor, the top floor, these airplanes would fly by when I was a kid.

And I would always want to be on those airplanes.

Like, where are they going?

I wanted to be on those planes, like explore other places and have adventures.

And when we were filming our song, we were stealing shots on the A train in Far Rockaway, close to Kennedy Airport.

And I remember sitting on the train,

And a plane going over and thinking, nope, there's nowhere else I want to be.

I want to be right here.

How cool.

Doing what I'm doing.

You can't put me on a plane right now.

I am like in...

this is it.