In conversation with VF’s editor in chief Radhika Jones, Washington spoke about reclaiming her roots and redefining success for her revelatory first book, ‘Thicker Than Water.’
on Tuesday, the day of her book’s release, this is the first time she’s had no character to hide her confessions within.
“If people don’t like the movie, I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, talk to the director.’ If I’m the director, I’m like, ‘I know—the studio didn’t give me enough money,’” Washington quips. This time around, “there’s nobody else to blame,” she says. “It’s much more vulnerable than any other creative endeavor I’ve ever taken on.”
The most headline-making revelation from Washington’s book is how she discovered that the man she believed to be her father,was not her biological parent. Faced with DNA tests after Washington signed on for an episode of PBS andher parents finally shared that she was the result of the use of a sperm donor. At the time, Washington was crafting her proposal for a book she planned to write about what she learned while playing political fixer Olivia Pope on ABC’s“I was like, ‘Cool, cool, cool.
The process also allowed Washington to reframe her parents’ decision to keep her roots in the shadows. “I love to say my parents were renegades. They were so badass. They were innovators. It was this highly experimental procedure, artificial insemination,” the actor said. “It wasn’t like my girlfriends now who we flipped through catalogs together. It was cloaked in secrecy and shame.
Throughout the writing process, Washington often found her memories centered on water—the beach in Brooklyn that bookended her parents’ first date, a spot on the high school swim team that inspired astoryline. “My most authentic self is when I’m swimming, when I’m underwater,” says Washington, who enlisted aquatic artistto paint her photorealistic cover. “There’s no makeup, my hair’s not done, there’s the metaphor of embryonic fluid,” Washington says while gazing at the image onstage.
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