Kerry Washington (2019)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kerry Washington has a habit of playing strong women, from Anita Hill in the 2016 film Confirmation to her seven-season run as Olivia Pope on the hit show Scandal. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist talks to Washington about how starring in that show changed her life, her role in the Broadway play turned Netflix movie American Son, and why her parents didn't want her to become an actor. (Original broadcast date: November 10, 2019)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:05.6	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.9	I guess this week a great one.
0:11.1	Kerry Washington.
0:12.1	Kerry is the star of the new Netflix film, American Sun.
0:16.3	It takes a raw look at race and policing in America.
0:20.7	American Sun started as a Broadway play.
0:23.3	It was a hit there.
0:24.6	And so now they've made it into a Netflix film basically in its original Broadway form.
0:29.4	Film cast, virtually the same set.
0:32.9	And it's a 90 minute film that just grabs you from the beginning and doesn't let you
0:37.3	go.
0:38.3	We'll talk about that.
0:39.3	And more in the interview, I'm joined on this podcast by the producer of the podcast, Maggie
0:43.5	Law.
0:44.5	Hey Maggie.
0:45.5	So we're just talking about how much we love Kerry Washington.
0:47.9	Yes.
0:48.9	Yes.
0:49.9	Great actor, obviously, incredibly intelligent outside the realm of film.
0:56.3	Netflix or activism, seriously incredibly well versed on politics and issues of the day.
1:01.6	Her big hit, of course, was scandal.
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