From the outside, it may look likeKerry Washingtonis consistently busy taking on new projects.
Yet, Washington says she is constantly trying to exit Hollywood.
“I have spent a lifetime trying to not be an actor,” she toldW Magazine.
Kerry Washington on ‘UnPrisoned’.Kelsey McNeal/Hulu/Courtesy Everett
I was entirely done with this business before reading the script forScandal.
This is what happens again and again."
The show is inspired by the life of TV writer Tracy McMillan, whose credits includeMad MenandMarvel’s Runaways.
“I think the circumstances of her life are so fascinating,” Washington told the publication.
“When I read it, I fell in love with the material immediately.”
McMillan illuminated some of what makes the narrative so powerful in an interview withThe Wrapearlier this year.
“I’m not writing this show as a favor to the audience,” she said.
“I’m writing the show to work it out for myself and audience receives catharsis through that.
That is what art is all about.
So, to me, that’s the highest form of popular culture.
It’s the highest form of media, and what got me into it in the first place.”
