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{blackbabes} Kerry Washington Says She Isn't Filled In On Those Crazy Scandal Plot Twists, Either

 
 
Kerry Washington has gotten used to those Shonda Rhimes' jaw droppers – but that doesn't mean she sees them coming.

The actress tells
Adweek in her April cover interview that the Scandal creator rarely gives her a heads-up when something major is happening with Olivia Pope (like those kidnapping or abortion scenes).

"I had no idea that the abortion scene was coming until I turned the page at the table read and read it out loud with everybody else," Washington told
Adweek. "There are occasional moments when she'll give me a hint about something that's coming, but it's very, very rare."

And Washington is okay with that: she has no interest in signing on as a producer and understands Rhimes' is in the drivers seat. "I show up and try to bring it to life," Washington explained.


"I want to have more creative control over the things that I do, and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires," Washington explained of producing Confirmation.

The similar setting between her ABC show and the story of Hill's face-off with Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, isn't lost on Washington.

Kerry Washington Says She Isn't Filled In On Those Crazy Scandal Plot Twists, Either| Scandal, TV News, Kerry Washington

 

"One of the reasons I was drawn to the project was because even though the environmental context was similar, this is a woman who is on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of access and power," she shared. "That part of it was fascinating for me, to flip the circumstance upside down, to not be an insider... I come from film where I only play a character for three months at a time and then it's done, so it's important for me to be able to put on other hats and make sure that all of the tools in my toolbox that don't apply to Olivia Pope are still in shape."

Real world politics also crossed over into Washington's onscreen life earlier this year, when actual presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton stopped by the Scandal set. The actress said the high-profile visit happened because of her own affiliation with the campaign.

Kerry Washington Says She Isn't Filled In On Those Crazy Scandal Plot Twists, Either| Scandal, TV News, Kerry Washington

 

"Hillary was in town for a fundraiser, and Tony [Goldwyn, who plays President Fitzgerald Grant] and I thought we might get off work in time to go, but we didn't," Washington told Adweek. "So I emailed Huma [Abedin, Clinton's longtime aide] and said, 'Why don't you guys come here?' And they were able to."

Of the former Secretary of State's visit with the messy Grant administration, Washington called it "very surreal."

"At some point you couldn't tell the difference between our pretend Secret Service on the show, and the real Secret Service walking on the set."

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