Kerry Washington is featured in the December 2010/ January 2011 issue of Capitol File Magazine.
In the issue Kerry talks about her childhood:
“From a very young age, the subjects at the dining room table were affirmative action, sexuality education, low-income housing, education reform—the pros and the cons, the ideological histories, the sociopolitical contexts.”
She also talks about For Colored Girls (originally a play now adapted into a film by Tyler Perry in which she co-stars):
“That play is such an important part of the American canon, but also of the canon for women of color. A lot of us have a For Colored Girls poem in our back pocket, the way you’d have a Shakespeare monologue in your back pocket.”
Kerry also talks about loving her job as an actress:
“I don’t think of it in terms of being difficult. There are much more difficult jobs than mine, like running the State Department! My job does not compare to Hillary Clinton’s.”
Read more from Kerry’s interview at CapitolFile-Magazine.com.
Photo: Robert Ashcroft for Capitol File Magazine
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