Kerry Washington is “trying to figure out” how to practice self-care.
Kerry Washington
The ‘Scandal’ star has admitted she doesn’t have “as much time” as she would like to have to herself in each day, but is doing her best to leave gaps in her busy schedule where she can put herself first.
When asked by People magazine if she’s making time for self-care, she said: “I am trying to figure out how to maintain a bit of it. I find that I don't have as much time as I would think that I have. A lot of us are doing more than we've ever done before while simultaneously being home more than we've ever been before. I'm definitely experiencing some Zoom fatigue.”
Meanwhile, the 43-year-old actress recently said she won't let fame stop her from "participating" in democracy and activism.
She explained: "I don't participate because I'm a person in the public eye; I do it because I'm an American. I'm never going to stop participating in my democracy because of what I do for a living."
The actress also opened up on playing the conservative Mrs. Green in her Netflix musical comedy 'The Prom', in which she opposes a lesbian couple going to a high school prom.
Kerry admitted that she relished the experience of being on the opposite end of the argument.
She added: "I've always been a really active person in the civic engagement, social justice space, so it was fun to try to wrap my head around the resistance to that."
The Hollywood star also feels that she is unable to "divorce" her political ideology from the choices she makes as an actress.
She said: "I've never been able to divorce political ideology from the choices I make as an actor, because black women in particular have been so marginalised.
"Even if I'm just doing my job as an actor, by bringing full, three-dimensional, human realisation to a character, when you do that as a black woman, it's a political act."
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