Kerry Washington Reveals the 1 Role You'll Probably Never See Her Play Again

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Kerry Washington may have taken on a lot of roles throughout her Hollywood career, but there’s one she’s adamant that she’ll never play again: a white girl’s best friend.

The Scandal star said as much in an excerpt from her recently released memoir Thicker Than Water where she explained that she made the decision after getting the role opposite Meg Ryan in the 2004 film Against the Ropes. Leading up to that particular film, she began noticing that she’d been typecasted in those roles—the first being the best friend to Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance (2001) and then again in the TV pilot for Wonderfalls (2004). But as the saying goes, third time’s the charm, and Washington vowed after Ropes, that she was done playing second fiddle.

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To read more of Washington’s story, where she opens up about coming to grips with the fact that she’s a product of a sperm donor, her struggles with an eating disorder, and her reasons why she had an abortion early on in her career—be sure to read her new memoir Thicker Than Water, available wherever books are sold.

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