Kerry Washington
for Ebony Magazine [March 2013]
In the issue she discusses the characters
she plays, Olivia Pope, in “Scandal”, and
Broomhilda, in “Django Unchained”. 

On “Olivia Pope”:

“In her professional life,
she is so powerful and is this self-made woman…
But in [Olivia’s] personal life, she is a mess and I kind of love that…
I love that I get to embody all of that complexity because I also think it takes
a certain level of progress for us to have a Black Woman that powerful
be an emotional mess on television.”

 On “Broomhilda” and the characters connection to “Olivia”:

“[Olivia] is the answer to Broomhilda’s prayers…
I’m grateful that these two women on opposite ends of history,
on opposite ends of their experience, both strong women but
in such different ways, can exist at the same time.”