Kerry Washington is beautiful, talented, and a leader in the craft of acting.
The famous actress hit up Jay Leno on Thursday night in an effort to promote her new, very controversial film Django Unchained, which also stars Jamie Fox and Leonardo DiCaprio!
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Hitting theatres this Christmas, the film is about slavery and seems to depict the era in a unique and intense way according to its many, many critics.
Our girl Kerry dished to the audience that she was even whipped for the film!
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She explains:
“It was really hard to do. I kept telling Quentin [Tarantino] that I was going to send him my extra therapy bills because it was really hard on Jamie and I both. That actually made us feel extra grateful for anybody that was able to survive it because we barely survived it for pretend for the eight months we were filming. I did [get hit with a whip]. We were filming on a slave plantation so it was an archeology site that you knew that these awful crimes against humanity had actually happened. It was a stunt whip but the guys were very reluctant to do it but I thought we are here and we should honor the story that we’re telling and honor the people who lived through this horrible tragedy and try to be as real as possible.”
Wow! There really aren’t too many actors and actresses that are that brave today. This film is going to be phenomenal.
Check out the footage over at NecoleBitchie and for part 1 of her interview, where she discusses researching her acting roles, playing Jamie’s wife, and more, watch below:
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