The Scandal actress' memoir, Thicker Than Water, is available now
“There was all of this attention of, like, ‘It’s been almost 40 years since a Black woman has led a network drama.’ I was in my early 30s at the time, so not in my lifetime had I seen it,” she went on. “There was this sense that if we didn’t get it right, it was going to be another 40 years before they let a Black woman be the lead of a drama. So I felt like I had to maintain a level of excellence that said, ‘we are capable, we are leaders, we are perfect.
—love a complicated lead character, Washington had more at stake than actors behind fellow protagonists like Bryan Cranston’s Walter White or Jon Hamm’s Don Draper. “Off the show, I felt I had to be an upstanding citizen because… there she is sleeping around with the president, right?” Washington shared.
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