Kerry Washington makes shocking revelation about her role in ‘Scandal’

Kerry Washington has made a shocking revelation about her role in Scandal.

During an appearance on Reign with Josh Smith podcast, the 48-year-old actress revealed that she was told she was a “risk” to lead the cast of the drama series.

“When Scandal first aired, everybody talked about it, literally talked about it as, ‘a risk,’ to have a black woman as the lead of a network drama because it hadn’t happened in almost 40 years,” shared Kerry.

She further said, “And I was in my 30s at the time, so it hadn’t happened in my lifetime. And people didn’t think it would work.

“So I was so proud that it worked, but also I wasn’t proud of myself. I wasn’t like, ‘oh, I’m amazing.’ I was like, audiences are amazing, right? Because audiences showed up,” continued the Six Triple Eight alum.

“Audiences tuned in in record numbers to say, ‘We want to see heroes that look like us.’ And then a bunch of audience members tuned in to say, ‘we want to see heroes that don’t look like us. We’re open to our heroes and our protagonists looking like everybody,’” she shared.

“And so that’s why the show worked,” Kerry added.

For those unversed, Scandal ran from 2012 to 2018.