Kerry Washington says her character on TV was what helped her have children
Actor Kerry Washington says she doesn’t think she would have had children if it wasn’t for the courage that her character in her current TV series gave her.
The 41-year-old actor is mother to three-year-old Isabelle and 17-month-old son Caleb, both of whom she has with her husband Nnamdi Asomugha.
Ahead of the final episode of the TV series, Washington has spoken up about how lifechanging her character Olivia Pope has been for her.
She says, “The thing that’s really fun for me about saying goodbye to a character is they kind of live in you. There will be things that Olivia Pope has given me that always stay with me. She’s changed me,” she says about the character, a crisis management expert.
“I don’t know if I would have had kids at this point in my life if she didn’t make me feel like anything is possible. I feel like she’s given me a lot of courage,” she says.
“I’m going to have to say bye to the (branded) purses but not goodbye to the courage, and the courage is more important,” the Django Unchained (2012) actor adds.
Washington hopes the show leaves a mark on the television landscape, after it broke new ground by casting a black female lead.
I don’t know if I would have had kids at this point in my life if Olivia Pope (her character on the show) didn’t make me feel like anything is possible. She’s given me a lot of courage.
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