“I am drawn to stories that I feel allow us a window into worlds we normally don’t have access to and give voice to characters that we tend to look away from as a society.”
Kerry Washington is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Pope in Scandal, a television series on the ABC network. She also has experience in the business and entertainment field, managing her own production management company, Simpson Street, in partnership with ABC Studios. In addition to producing and acting, Washington is a constant advocate for people of color in the industry, as well as a public ally for the LGBTQ+ community.
Nationality: American
Industry: Media and Entertainment
Q: How do you approach your character in “Scandal”? Do you use a specific method? HolmesPlace
A: “I work very physically. How I approach a character often has a lot to do with the physicality of that character. So the challenge of my physicality changing dramatically two times now in the life of the show and Olivia’s body not changing, I was trying to figure out how to hold onto her posture and her emotion, her physical orientation while mine is different every day has been in a real exercise for me.”
