Kerry Washington on Being A Bad-Ass Mama On the Big Screen and In Real Life

The Mama's Den

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5 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kerry Washington is in the Den! The Emmy-winning actress, activist, and mom of three joins the Mamas to talk about her latest film, Shadow Force, and what it’s like to play a badass mom on-screen while navigating wife-and-mom life behind the scenes. Kerry gets real about everything from her parenting partnership with her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, to the moment she learned her father isn’t her biological dad - and how that revelation reshaped her personal and professional journey. Kerry and the Mamas also dive into what it takes to build a support system (it's okay to ask for help!) and how love is the greatest thing we can give ourselves.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all?
0:04.9	I'm Fee.
0:06.4	It's Belity.
0:07.4	And Cody here.
0:08.2	And you've tapped into the Mamas Dan.
0:11.2	We're all Mamas and we've got 11 kids between the four of us.
0:16.0	And let's just say we are tired.
0:18.7	But we're also friends who are going through this journey of motherhood together.
0:22.6	Each week, we are giving you some laughs, maybe some tears, sharing our personal stories,
0:27.3	and of course, giving advice what we hope is helpful.
0:30.7	This is the show we wish we had before becoming mammas.
0:33.6	So grandmas, aunties, sisters, uncles, daddy, brothers, everybody who's in the village of raising children, we got you.
0:40.6	Shall we get into it, ladies?
0:42.1	Let's do it.
0:45.0	Y'all is Mama's Den Monday.
0:47.5	Mama's Den Monday.
0:49.5	Oh.
0:50.6	Are what you going on?
0:51.6	I like that, I like that.
0:53.5	Well, we got notes.
0:55.1	Okay.
0:56.0	All right.
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