Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Very, very excited about our guest today. It is the one, the only, Kerry Washington. Kerry is so talented. She is so good at so many things, and we're gonna talk about a lot of those things today. We are gonna talk about growing up in the Bronx, the Bronx, and how it shaped her and what she learned from being from there.
And we're gonna talk about her activism, how she stays connected in a turbulent and often depressing world. We're gonna talk about scandal, because of course, And we're going to get to the nitty gritty in a lot of that. And we're going to talk about Amazing Race, a random show that we talk about and talk about how good it is for kids.
We're going to talk about her new TV show, Imperfect Women, with Elizabeth Moss and Kate Mara that's coming out on Apple. All of these things are going to be discussed today. But most importantly, we're going to discuss her with someone who loves her. And who is that person? Fitz. That's right.
Chapter 2: What insights does Kerry Washington share about growing up in the Bronx?
Tony Goldwyn. Writer, producer, director. Just coming off of directing Shea Joey, a new... musical with Savion Glover that is hopefully on its way to Broadway. We're catching Tony right after rehearsal. He's tired and still he can't wait to profess his admiration for his co-star. So let's see if we can get him on the Zoom horn. Tony, are you there?
Chapter 3: How does Kerry Washington stay connected in a turbulent world?
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Kerry face while filming 'Scandal'?
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Tony?
Hi, Amy.
Chapter 5: How does Kerry Washington view her role in 'The Amazing Race'?
How are you?
Thank you for talking to us today because I have to say that The relationship that you and Carrie had on screen and off screen is really, really wonderful to watch. And people are very invested in it. And what I have to say is what I glean from the way you two interact with each other is a deep mutual respect. deep, deep respect for the way you work and the kind of people that you are.
Can you tell us how you first met?
Chapter 6: What unique perspectives does Kerry Washington bring to 'Imperfect Women'?
My first recollection we may have met briefly before this was at the Democratic Convention when Obama became president in 2008 in Denver, which was a really incredible experience.
I bet.
And then we kind of became friends through kind of social activism and stuff, but didn't know each other well. But for me, when Shonda asked me to do Scandal and she told me Kerry Washington was doing it, Kerry was an actress who every time I saw her in a movie, I found myself going, who is that actress in that role? Because she was so different in every movie she did.
And at the end of the credits, I'd look and I'd go, oh my God, that's Kerry Washington. She just was so great. And everything I saw, whether it was Ray or Last King of Scotland, I remember seeing her in it. But again, totally different than anything I'd seen. So I was just like, God, I hope I get a chance to work with her.
So when Shonda said to me, she's like, are you playing the president in my new show? And I was like, well, Shonda Rhimes writing a president, that'd be pretty interesting. When she said Kerry Washington, I was like, you and Kerry Washington, I'm in.
Had you known Shonda before? Had you worked with Shonda before?
Yeah, I met Shonda. I directed the, I think the second or third episode of Grey's Anatomy.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, it was one of the first TV things I'd done. I directed a couple of movies and then Betsy Beers, Shonda's partner, called me and said, you know, we'd like, would you consider doing Grey's Anatomy? And I saw the pilot of that show and said, wow, this is amazing. Of course. And I was just getting used to directing TV. So I did that. And Shonda and I met and she was... Brand new to television.
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Chapter 7: How does Kerry Washington balance motherhood and her career?
Fred does all the accents of different parts of New York and he always talks about the Bronx. Yes. And how it's even the word with an X in it.
Yes, it has an X. It's also the only borough that has a the in front of it. Yes. You don't say the Brooklyn. The Bronx. The Bronx. It's like a thing.
Yes. It's a whole thing. It's so true. And there's a vibe. I mean, it's a working class vibe, certainly. Yes, for sure. And a sense of pride. But you're right.
There is a... It's like a scrappy, scruffy hustler vibe to it that I'm really proud of.
Yeah.
Super proud. I don't think I would, you know, have the things I have or have done. But I have to tell you, this is a little bit of a tangent, but I have to get... I don't want to forget to say this. I love tangents. This morning when I got up, I was thinking about... I was prepping for this interview. You're such a good student.
I was like, I remember my first Time 100 dinner that I ever had the blessing to attend. You were one of the Time 100 recipients and your speech changed my life. It was extraordinary because you got up. It was like you stood up at the tables. Do you remember this? Everybody stood up in the room and the tables and you thanked your nanny. That's who you thanked in your speech.
Yeah.
I owe my own, my nannies. Nannies. A lot. And I was thinking about it this morning because it really moved me. I got very emotional. But I was like, I wasn't even a mom then. I wasn't a mom yet. And I think, like now when I think about it, it's one of the things I love about you because you do credit the people who make it possible, right?
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of kintsugi in Kerry's life?
And you don't get more credit by making other humans invisible. Like it doesn't make you more perfect.
Well, I feel like a lot of the work that you do is exactly that, is making sure that people feel visible and feel seen. Like, whether it's the art you're making or the stuff that you're fighting for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it makes sense to me that, like... That it would impact me that way.
Yeah. That I heard it that way.
Yeah. Before I pass by J-Lo.
Yeah, yeah. Just a little mic drop on J-Lo. Just... Yeah. She taught me how to dance. Can you just tell us... What do you mean? So we had this dance teacher named Larry Maldonado. Mm-hmm. And Larry was a dream. Larry taught me so much. He was, like, this very...
gay man dance teacher and he ran the dance program at the Boys and Girls Club and he got really sick in the 80s like a lot of people did and Jennifer is not that much older than me, but she's a little bit older than me. So she was one of the big girls at the club. And so when Larry went into the hospital, she started teaching dance. She was teaching the little girls classes.
So, I mean, if I was like eight, she was 16 or something like that. But she was teaching. So I learned like hip hop and flamenco and like all that. I learned to dance from Jennifer. She's never hired me to dance in any of her videos, but I don't know what that says.
That's wild.
It's so crazy.
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