But “Thicker than Water” is more sincere than sensational.
“I can count on one hand the number of times that I have seen my mother cry,” the actress writes in her new memoir, “Thicker than Water.” “This was the second.”
The next morning, Washington’s mother smiled as she made breakfast, as if nothing had happened. It was a familiar scene for the only child who describes her experience growing up as playing the role of “good girl” for parents intent on projecting a picture-perfect image to their daughter and the outside world.
But this revelation is a relatively minor part of a memoir that is really the story of an artist leaning into the emotional truths of the characters she built, because she never fully trusted her own. Maybe that explains her impressive success. Washington, 46, was raised in the Bronx and began acting as a young teen with a local educational theater group. After starring in her breakout film, 2001’s oft-memed teen drama “Save the Last Dance,” she would go on to co-star in Oscar-winning films , headline Broadway plays and, most famously, embody Olivia Pope on the ABC drama “Scandal.
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