Actress Kerry Washington’s experience of being an outsider — and challenging people's notions about her race, class and gender — is something that she draws on in the Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere.
I was around 34, 35 at the time ... [and] in my lifetime, I had never seen a network drama with a black woman as the lead. So this was a highly coveted role. And [showrunner] Shonda [Rhimes], really, she says she saw almost every black actress in Hollywood between the ages of 19 and 60. She really wanted to give everybody a shot. ... So when I read the script, I thought, this is mine. It felt like it was written for me.
On being a founding member of Time's Up, an initiative aimed at combating sexual harassment inside and outside of the entertainment industry I was invited into the movement by other women who are friends of mine who were doing the work, who were at these meetings. ... We were still filmingat the time and I was working 16 hour days. But I started getting text messages from Rashida Jones, and Eva Longoria, and Reese Witherspoon saying: There are these meetings happening and you need to be there. We need your voice and we want your input. And we know you would want to be there. And so I went, and they were right.
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