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recalls. The subject at hand was the closing scene, where lieutenant John Stokes reads the police report of Jamal’s incident. Washington’s friend admitted that a part of her hoped inevitable tragedy would strike one of Jamal’s friends rather than Jamal, a talented biracial boy with a West Point future. By this point we know one of Jamal’s pals had an arrest warrant out for a petty crime.
“Then she was horrified,” Washington says of her friend. “Because she thought, ‘Where is my unconscious bias that I’ve decided [I should care less] because the other boy had a nickel bag or because I don’t know his parents? Because he’s not biracial? Because I don’t know if he’s ever going to go to college?’ All of those dynamics at play made her undervalue the life of one young Black man in relation to another.
That aim is part of the reason we never see Jamal, whose discomfort over his biracial identity is the foundation of his character. “We don’t want any audience member to look at him and say ‘Oh, he belongs to me and not them’ or ‘He belongs to them and not me,’” Washington says. “We want every person who watches to feel like Jamal could be theirs.”
Since we never meet Jamal, all we have to understand him are the words of his parents. It is through those stories some viewers may end up hoping Kendra and Scott will repair their tattered marriage. That is certainly one of the ways Washington and her co-star Pasquale, who also both starred in’s initial Broadway run, dealt with living through the “nightmare” of their characters’ situation for 90 minutes every day.“We really wanted audience members to root for them.
Although Washington isn’t so sure anymore that Kendra and Scott should wind up together, she is confident in the other ways she dealt with the pain of. First, the actress/producer did “a real deep dive in self care.” Then, she worked with social justice lab
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