![Kerry Washington likes to say careers arent made overnight in Holly-
wood; theyre built over long periods of time, and there are waves of prog-
ress. Well, shes certainly riding atop a mammoth one right now, playing
not one but two roles of a lifetime that bookend the African-American ex-
perience.
On ABCs Scandal, Washington is a BlackBerry-wielding, Armani-draped
crisis expert who leads a team of dedicated associates that save clients
from public embarrassment or possible jail time. At the other end of the
spectrum is Quentin Tarantinos new 鍖lm, Django Unchained, for which
WashingtonsbraveperformanceasaslavetrappedinanantebellumSouth
hellhole awaiting rescue by Jamie Foxxs title character is already getting
Oscar buzz. The two projects, emblematic of Washingtons elevated status
in Hollywood, will overlap this month. (Scandal will be in midseason when
DjangoopensonChristmasDay.)
Itshardo鍖handtothinkofanotheractresswhosbeeninthisposition,and
evenhardertothinkofoneinapairofrolesthataresuchwhiplashextremes
of one another. Washington, who is talented, beautiful, and smart, is still
contemplatingwhatitallmeansforher.Iknowamomentlikethisdoesnt
last forever, she says during a recent interview in New York. Asked if shes
atleastenjoyingit,thereisalongpause.IthinkIam,shesays,鍖nally.
Its certainly not easy 鍖nding time in her packed schedule. These days,
Washington needs to be three people: 鍖lming 17-hour days, doing press,
popping up on talk shows, accepting awards, etc., etc. Earlier this year, the
actress had just two days between scenes for Scandal and Django. I went
from shooting in a slave shack with my character curled up in bed, terri鍖ed
about the state of her future, she says, to walking in heels outside of the
WhiteHouseonmywaytomeetthepresidentschiefofsta鍖.
All her life, Washington, 35, has had to straddle two worlds that seem poles
apart. Growing up in the Bronx, a few blocks from Jennifer Lopez, she
was bused to a school in a predominantly Italian-American neighborhood
where she was enrolled in a gifted and talented program. Washington still
managed to take home the sixth grade language prize... in Italian. That
adaptability has helped her become one of the most versatile and consis-
tentlyinterestingactressesaround.Washingtonhaslitupmoviesfrom The
LastKingofScotlandtoIThinkILoveMyWife;originatedaroleonBroadway
in the David Mamet play Race; and spent one of her few o鍖 days of 2012 in
Charlotte,N.C.,addressingtheDemocraticNationalConvention.
Foxx,hertwo-timecostar,saysshestherealdeal.Icantsayenoughabout
the brilliance and toughness of her, especially in Django, where shes amaz-
ingly vulnerable playing this damsel in distress throwback character. And
then you look at the strength of what shes doing on Scandal, where shes in
controlanddoingherthing.Headds:Alotofactressesonlygettoplayone
note.Kerrysabletoplayasymphony.
Accoladestendto鍖ywhenpeopletalkaboutWashington.Scandalproducer
Betsy Beers calls her a dream collaborator. Shes kind, forthright, super-
supportiveofthecrewandcast,saysBeers.Shehastheabilitytomakeyou
feelspecial,likeyouretheonlyoneintheroom.
Washington, of course, doesnt disappoint when we meet up. On a fall day
in Midtown Manhattan, she walks into the restaurant of a swanky hotel,
looking hood chic: tar-black bubble vest, a designer-knit sweater, slim-cut
jeans, and some custom-built Nikes. Lunch is on the itinerary, but with the
sunshiningWashingtonaskstotakeawalkinstead.Shedjustawokenfrom
a nap after 鍖ying in on the red-eye and running into a 鍖tting. Yet, even with
no makeup and her hair pulled back in a bun, she is radiant. She could have
justwalkedo鍖thepagesofVogue.
Outside, we enter Central Park through the Artists Gate on Sixth Avenue,
moving past a crowd of tourists on camera phones, and turn up a walkway
lined with benches. When Washington is out in public, rolling with friends
andassociates,shesometimesavoidseyecontactwithstrangersasacourte-
sytothem.Havingtostopeveryfewminutestotalktoadmirers,sheknows,
couldgetalittletiresome.Ofcourse,shesspottedanyway:Onecoupleasks
for a photo; and a woman has to tell her how much she loves Scandal. The
showhasbeengettingsolidratings,andinaweekortwoABCwillannounce
thatitsextendingScandalssophomoreseasonfrom13to22episodes.
After years spent seesawing between commercial and independent 鍖lms,
Washington made the leap to television in 2011, becoming the 鍖rst black
actress in nearly 40 years to have her own major network drama. (The 鍖rst
wasTeresaGravesin1974sGetChristieLove!,whichranforaseason.) Scan-
dal,producedbyShondaRhimes,isimmersedinWashington,D.C.,politics.
Not surprisingly, the actress loves playing the biggest 鍖xer in town. She
comes alive just talking about the character. Olivia Pope is so much more
powerfulandsophisticatedthanIam,andshehasmoreaccess!saysWash-
ington. The character, loosely based on consultant Judy Smith, whose cli-
entsincludedMonicaLewinsky,isinalotofwaysthemostcomplicatedshe
haseverplayed.UsuallyIgointomyactorstoolboxandsay,Okay,Ineed
this tool and this tool and this tool, states Washington, pretending to grab
some hardware. Everything else Ill put away and go to work. With Olivia,
everydayIhavebothtoolboxes!Everytool.Sherequiresallofme:mybrain,
mybody,myheart,allofit.
Washington doesnt exactly sit when she approaches a giant rock at the top
of a small hill; she sort of perches atop it and takes in the sights. Over her
shoulders is a row of gleaming skyscrapers. She breathes in the view and
smiles.Isntthisgreat?WeregettingourvitaminDandfreshair.
Washington is here to accept an award tonight from the youth empow-
erment organization Black Girls Rock. In an age of party girls and potty-
mouthed stars, and in a town where nice girls 鍖nish closer to last than 鍖rst,
Washington is a paragon of civility and integrity. Yet, shes clearly riled by
theideaofbeingsomekindofsaint.Itrytomakethebestchoicesforme,
she says, looking pensive. For her, its never been about, Oh, this is what
people should see or need to see. If you look at my body of work, Ive al-
ways taken huge risks. At a moment when people considered me a serious
actor, Ill go work with the Wayans brothers on a silly comedy [Little Man].
Iveplayedprostitutes,drugaddicts,pimpinglesbians.IdoworkImdrawn
to.
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- 3. Kerry Washington likes to say careers arent made overnight in Holly- wood; theyre built over long periods of time, and there are waves of prog- ress. Well, shes certainly riding atop a mammoth one right now, playing not one but two roles of a lifetime that bookend the African-American ex- perience. On ABCs Scandal, Washington is a BlackBerry-wielding, Armani-draped crisis expert who leads a team of dedicated associates that save clients from public embarrassment or possible jail time. At the other end of the spectrum is Quentin Tarantinos new 鍖lm, Django Unchained, for which WashingtonsbraveperformanceasaslavetrappedinanantebellumSouth hellhole awaiting rescue by Jamie Foxxs title character is already getting Oscar buzz. The two projects, emblematic of Washingtons elevated status in Hollywood, will overlap this month. (Scandal will be in midseason when DjangoopensonChristmasDay.) Itshardo鍖handtothinkofanotheractresswhosbeeninthisposition,and evenhardertothinkofoneinapairofrolesthataresuchwhiplashextremes of one another. Washington, who is talented, beautiful, and smart, is still contemplatingwhatitallmeansforher.Iknowamomentlikethisdoesnt last forever, she says during a recent interview in New York. Asked if shes atleastenjoyingit,thereisalongpause.IthinkIam,shesays,鍖nally. Its certainly not easy 鍖nding time in her packed schedule. These days, Washington needs to be three people: 鍖lming 17-hour days, doing press, popping up on talk shows, accepting awards, etc., etc. Earlier this year, the actress had just two days between scenes for Scandal and Django. I went from shooting in a slave shack with my character curled up in bed, terri鍖ed about the state of her future, she says, to walking in heels outside of the WhiteHouseonmywaytomeetthepresidentschiefofsta鍖. All her life, Washington, 35, has had to straddle two worlds that seem poles apart. Growing up in the Bronx, a few blocks from Jennifer Lopez, she was bused to a school in a predominantly Italian-American neighborhood where she was enrolled in a gifted and talented program. Washington still managed to take home the sixth grade language prize... in Italian. That adaptability has helped her become one of the most versatile and consis- tentlyinterestingactressesaround.Washingtonhaslitupmoviesfrom The LastKingofScotlandtoIThinkILoveMyWife;originatedaroleonBroadway in the David Mamet play Race; and spent one of her few o鍖 days of 2012 in Charlotte,N.C.,addressingtheDemocraticNationalConvention. Foxx,hertwo-timecostar,saysshestherealdeal.Icantsayenoughabout the brilliance and toughness of her, especially in Django, where shes amaz- ingly vulnerable playing this damsel in distress throwback character. And then you look at the strength of what shes doing on Scandal, where shes in controlanddoingherthing.Headds:Alotofactressesonlygettoplayone note.Kerrysabletoplayasymphony. Accoladestendto鍖ywhenpeopletalkaboutWashington.Scandalproducer Betsy Beers calls her a dream collaborator. Shes kind, forthright, super- supportiveofthecrewandcast,saysBeers.Shehastheabilitytomakeyou feelspecial,likeyouretheonlyoneintheroom. Washington, of course, doesnt disappoint when we meet up. On a fall day in Midtown Manhattan, she walks into the restaurant of a swanky hotel, looking hood chic: tar-black bubble vest, a designer-knit sweater, slim-cut jeans, and some custom-built Nikes. Lunch is on the itinerary, but with the sunshiningWashingtonaskstotakeawalkinstead.Shedjustawokenfrom a nap after 鍖ying in on the red-eye and running into a 鍖tting. Yet, even with no makeup and her hair pulled back in a bun, she is radiant. She could have justwalkedo鍖thepagesofVogue. Outside, we enter Central Park through the Artists Gate on Sixth Avenue, moving past a crowd of tourists on camera phones, and turn up a walkway lined with benches. When Washington is out in public, rolling with friends andassociates,shesometimesavoidseyecontactwithstrangersasacourte- sytothem.Havingtostopeveryfewminutestotalktoadmirers,sheknows, couldgetalittletiresome.Ofcourse,shesspottedanyway:Onecoupleasks for a photo; and a woman has to tell her how much she loves Scandal. The showhasbeengettingsolidratings,andinaweekortwoABCwillannounce thatitsextendingScandalssophomoreseasonfrom13to22episodes. After years spent seesawing between commercial and independent 鍖lms, Washington made the leap to television in 2011, becoming the 鍖rst black actress in nearly 40 years to have her own major network drama. (The 鍖rst wasTeresaGravesin1974sGetChristieLove!,whichranforaseason.) Scan- dal,producedbyShondaRhimes,isimmersedinWashington,D.C.,politics. Not surprisingly, the actress loves playing the biggest 鍖xer in town. She comes alive just talking about the character. Olivia Pope is so much more powerfulandsophisticatedthanIam,andshehasmoreaccess!saysWash- ington. The character, loosely based on consultant Judy Smith, whose cli- entsincludedMonicaLewinsky,isinalotofwaysthemostcomplicatedshe haseverplayed.UsuallyIgointomyactorstoolboxandsay,Okay,Ineed this tool and this tool and this tool, states Washington, pretending to grab some hardware. Everything else Ill put away and go to work. With Olivia, everydayIhavebothtoolboxes!Everytool.Sherequiresallofme:mybrain, mybody,myheart,allofit. Washington doesnt exactly sit when she approaches a giant rock at the top of a small hill; she sort of perches atop it and takes in the sights. Over her shoulders is a row of gleaming skyscrapers. She breathes in the view and smiles.Isntthisgreat?WeregettingourvitaminDandfreshair. Washington is here to accept an award tonight from the youth empow- erment organization Black Girls Rock. In an age of party girls and potty- mouthed stars, and in a town where nice girls 鍖nish closer to last than 鍖rst, Washington is a paragon of civility and integrity. Yet, shes clearly riled by theideaofbeingsomekindofsaint.Itrytomakethebestchoicesforme, she says, looking pensive. For her, its never been about, Oh, this is what people should see or need to see. If you look at my body of work, Ive al- ways taken huge risks. At a moment when people considered me a serious actor, Ill go work with the Wayans brothers on a silly comedy [Little Man]. Iveplayedprostitutes,drugaddicts,pimpinglesbians.IdoworkImdrawn to. 00 油 油www.uptownmagazine.com
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- 8. To be clear, she will say no to stu鍖. But more often than not its because the part was poorly writ- tenormaybereinforceddemeaningstereotypes.Theonethingshedoesntdoismakeassumptions about characters. If I were to say its okay to play a lawyer but not a maid, or its okay to play a pro- fessor but not a slave, that would be sort of spitting on the legacy of my grandmother, who was a maid on Park Avenue for years, or my ancestors in South Carolina, who came from slavery. Whats interesting about storytelling, she says, is we get to step into someones experience for an hour and a half in the dark, and in the process of living through that journey we learn about ourselves. Thatswhatitsallabouttome. GROWINGUP,Washingtonwasaprettyactivekidballet,gymnastics,actinglessons.Inelemen- taryschool,shestartedgettingintoMeetthePressandLikeItIs.Shestillremembersthelively,some- times heated, discussions on race and society around the dinner table. My familys very multieth- nic,shesays.Whenwegettogetherfortheholidays,itistheU.N.,acrosstheboard.Hermother, who holds a doctorate in education, and her father, a real estate broker, lived in opposition to the beliefthatchildrenshouldbeseenandnotheard.Theypushedtheirdaughteracademically,enroll- ingherinTheSpenceSchool,anexclusiveprivateinstitutionontheUpperEastSide.Shewasinfor abigcultureshock. PriortoSpence,Washingtonthoughtherworking-middle-classfamilywasballing.Wehadamicro- wave and two cars. We had a dishwasher before anyone in the building, she says. And then you go tothisotherworld,andits,Oh,weretakingahelicoptertoyourhouseintheHamptons?Foralot ofclassmates,Iknewtheonlyotherblackwomentheydknownweretheirdomestichelp.(Wash- ington is careful to say she is proud of her Spenci鍖cation, and made plenty of lifelong friends at theschool.Sheoftengoesbackforassembliesandevengavethecommencementaddressin2006.) Duringherjunioryear,Washington,whohadbeentoyingwiththeaterforsometime,enteredanact- ing competition sponsored by the National YoungArts Foundation, and was invited to the 鍖nals in Miami.Her showingthereputherontheradar ofcollegeswithstrongartsprograms,suchasCarn- egie Mellon and NYU. Both o鍖ered full rides. Instead, she chose George Washington University, whereshewasrequiredtoauditionforeveryplayaspartofherscholarship.Itwaslikebeingonthe basketballteam,shesays.Irarelygotbenched. Acareerinactingwasneverinherplans.Ialwaysassociateditwithwantingtobefamous,shesays. Im not a competitive person. Im not someone who has a desire to be the center of attention. So the drive for fame was o鍖-putting to me. But deep down she loved telling stories about the human condition;andaround1996,Washingtondecidedtogetseriousaboutacting.BackinNewYork,she spent a few years doing community theater with NiteStar, which mounted vignettes about at-risk youths. Inthebeginning,paidactinggigswerehardtocomeby,andtocoverrentforherEastHarlemapart- ment,Washingtonsigneduptobeasubstituteteacher.Shehasalsotaughtyogaandworkedataveg- anrestaurantintheEastVillagethatlethertakeo鍖monthsatatime,allowinghertogoonlocation for movies. Then, in 2000, she made her big-screen debut as a Brooklyn teen in Our Song, a small indie drama youve probably never seen but that critics loved. Next came her 鍖rst studio feature, Save the Last Dance, in which she plays the white girls best friend, but turned it into the best part of themovie.Shehaddonethree鍖lms,butwasstillpickingupshiftsattherestaurant. Not long after that, she left for L.A., where she shot two pilots that shall remain unnamed. Both times my character was recast. They basically 鍖red me, she says, laughing about it now. When one of the shows was picked up, the actors under contract were put on hold for a year and blocked from working.BecauseWashingtongottheboot,shewasfreetoaudition,andthatswhenshelandedRay. The 2004 biopic earned Foxx an Academy Award, and Washington, who plays his noble wife Della BeaRobinson,aspotonHollywoodshotlist. Since then, she has been working steadily, always on the lookout it seems for a character/project withahigherdegreeofdi鍖culty.Despitealltheacclaimandbig-namecollaborators(ForestWhita- ker, Brangelina, all right... the Wayans), she says she is constantly trying to leave the entertainment business.Almostonceayear,herhairandmakeupfolkshearit:Iamdone!Imsodone.Now,they barelybataneyelash.Mm,hmm.Sureyouare.ButWashingtonsays,SometimesIfeellikeIcantdo thisanymore.AndthenIllcomeacrossascript,andsay,OhWell,thisiskindofgreat. Add Django Unchained to that list. When Washington read the script, she knew that it was one of those few. The movie, written and directed by Tarantino, is a preCivil War action-packed love sto- ry. In it, Washington plays one of the more tormented cinematic souls in recent memory: Broom- hilda von Shaft, a slave woman severely punished for trying to run o鍖 with her lover, Django. When the two are sold to di鍖erent plantations, Django gets, well, unchained and searches for her, cutting downplentyofruthlessoverseersintheprocess,andsayingstu鍖like,Ilikethewayyoudie,boy. IF I WERE TO SAY ITS OKAY TO PLAY A LAWYER BUT NOT A MAID, OR ITS OKAY TO PLAY A PROFESSOR BUT NOT A SLAVE, THAT WOULD BE SORT OF SPITTING ON THE LEGACY OF MY GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS A MAID ON PARK AVENUE, OR MY ANCES- TORS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, WHO CAME FROM SLAVERY. WHATS INTERESTING ABOUT STORY- TELLING IS WE GET TO STEP INTO SOMEONES EXPERIENCE, AND IN THE PROCESS OF LIVING THROUGH THAT JOURNEY WE LEARN ABOUT OURSELVES. www.uptownmagazine.com 油 油00
- 9. What drew Washington to Django was the chance to work on something that would present the period in a new light. Ive never seen slavery dealt with this way before in 鍖lm. So often its a white character whos the savior ofblackpeople,shesays. Slavery,ofcourse,hasbeenwelldocumentedinprint.Awholeslewofbooks examining its long and bloody history are published yearly. But more re- cently there seems to be a growing fascination with Americas original sin re鍖ectedineverythingfromartexhibitionstofolkstarinterviews.Atatime whenournations鍖rstblackpresidentisstrugglingtopulltheeconomyout of the worst recession since the 1930s, 鍖lmmakers are taking a closer, more criticallookatitsorigins.InadditiontoDjango,whichhasspawnedacomic book series with the same title, theres Steven Spielbergs Lincoln biopic, about the 16th presidents decision to emancipate the slaves, and Twelve Years a Slave, based on the memoir of a free black man who was kidnapped andsoldintohumanbondage. Unlike those, Django, which takes the guise of a spaghetti western, has stirred up a bit of controversy online and in academic circles. One Ivy Leaguescholar(whohadntseenthemovie)saiditsoundslikeahugestep backwards. But the 鍖lms producer Reginald Hudlin argues that it was es- sential that it not play like a dry lecture. The bottom line is you have to ap- proachthesubjectfromanartisticpointofview,saysHudlin. The genesis of Django dates back to a 1990s Oscar party, where Hudlin and Tarantino had a brief conversation about movies on the topic of slavery. I just thought they were what I call cod liver oil movies. They are not enter- taining in any way and you have to force yourself to go see them because theyre good for you, explains Hudlin. But why is it so bad? Why does it have to be a painful experience? It took more than a decade, but the seed thatHudlinplantedwithTarantinoeventuallygrewintothescriptforDjan- go, and the two decided to make themselves the biggest, baddest, bloodiest slave鍖lmever. Washington is aware of the controversy, which she attributes more to the 鍖lmhavingawhitedirectorthananythingelse.Shesalsogladmoremovies are focusing on the slave experience. We should have a plethora of visions and interpretations of who we are as a nation. But she admits, This is not necessarily the 鍖lm I would make about slavery. Im not a violent person. I often watch Tarantino movies through what he calls chick-vision. She covershereyesandpeeksthroughher鍖ngers. From the start, the idea of inhabiting the world of slavery was daunting. Candyland,theplantationtowhichWashingtonscharacterissold,doubles asa19thcenturygentlemensclub.Itsowner,playedbyLeonardoDiCaprio, forcesmaleslavesto鍖ghttothedeathforpublicamusementandthewom- en into sex. Leo and I had to be willing to go into the darkest places of this period in order for Jamies rise out of the ashes to really mean something, she says. Django was the hardest 鍖lm Ive ever done. It took me to places I neverhadtogobeforeInevereventhoughtaboutgoingbefore. Samples of Washingtons Django scenes include a savage gang rape; a lash- ing; and an emotional sequence in which Broomhilda is stripped of her clothing and thrown in the hot box, a metal cell buried underground. On thedaytheyshotthescene,Washingtontoldthestuntcoordinatorstanding nearby that she was going in and would be screaming for a while before the scene starts. Dont do anything, she told him. The stunt coordinator just couldntbearit,remembersHudlin.Hehadtobecauseshegavehimstrict instructions.Butitwasbrutalforeveryone. Washington, like Foxx, was determined to honor her ancestors by getting intheskinandthemindstateofaslave.Ontheset,shealwayshadhereyes inabook,usuallyaslavenarrative,andshe,Foxx,andthe鍖lmmakerswould have long talks about the e鍖ect of the material. Psychology, sociology, and history are important parts of my toolbox as an actor, the Phi Beta Kappa scholarsaysatonepoint.Iworkthatway.Icomefromaresearchperspec- tive.IfeellikeIapproachmyworkasananthropologistandthegoalistogo native,tokindoflosemyselfintheworldImresearching. Hudlin says Washington de鍖nitely does that, in a challenging and nuanced role.Shesanextraordinaryactress.Shesalsoagenuineintellectual,says Hudlin. So in terms of really understanding the material and being able to translateitintoperformance,shewasfantastic. Even worse than the physical demands of the role were the psychologi- cal scars Washington picked at throughout the course of making the 鍖lm, which dragged on for 136 days, much of them spent on the grounds of Ever- greenPlantationonthewestbankoftheMississippiRiver.Priortoproduc- tion, the 鍖lmmakers built a replica slave cabin next to the actual 22 that are standing.Fromoneofthedoorways,youcanseeanoldhangingtreenearby. It was crazy, says Washington about going to work every day. You would beshootinginthe鍖eldsandsomeonewouldstumbleupon,literally,apiece ofanoldshackle. Some mornings she was completely terri鍖ed to even get out of bed to ap- proach the character. It got so bad she invited her manager and parents to visit her on location, something she never does. I kept saying I was going to send Tarantino the bill for my extra therapy sessions, Washington says, half-joking. Ultimately, what carried her through the experience was the profound respect and gratitude she has for the women who survived these conditions.Makingthis鍖lmchangedus,shesays. In the wake of Scandal and Django Unchained, Washington isnt sure what to do next. Shes not one to plan too far ahead. But shed love some time to travel and chill with her family. Maybe, in February, shell hear her name called at the Oscars. And who knows, by that time she just might have read anotherscriptthatmadehersay,OhWell,thisiskindofgreat. I WENT FROM SHOOTING IN A SLAVE SHACK WITH MY CHARACTER CURLED UP IN BED, TERRIFIED ABOUT THE STATE OF HER FUTURE, TO WALKING IN HEELS OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE ON MY WAY TO MEET THE PRESIDENTS CHIEF OF STAFF. HAIR:TAKISHASTURDIVANT-DREW/KENBARBOZA&ASSOCIATES:MAKEUP:CAROLAGONZALEZ;MANICURIST:ELLE/THEWALLGROUP;STYLISTASSISTANT:BENPERREIRA 00 油 油www.uptownmagazine.com
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