{"id":6164,"date":"2021-02-23T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2021-02-23T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:56:24","slug":"kerry-washington-and-laverne-cox-discuss-creating-room-for-inclusivity-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/kerry-washington-and-laverne-cox-discuss-creating-room-for-inclusivity-on-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Washington and Laverne Cox Discuss Creating Room For Inclusivity On Set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kerry Washington and Laverne Cox are working hard to provide opportunities for underrepresented artists on-screen and behind the scenes. In conversation with <\/strong>Variety\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Angelique Jackson, Cox and Washington describe how becoming producers allowed them to have control over their work, which allows for more diversity and inclusion. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe question for me has always been, \u2018How do we keep the door open? How do we open a window?\u201d said Cox. \u201cHow do we just let the whole wall come down, so that more people can get in?\u2019 That is the challenge of being a first something.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Producing has provided the actresses with more freedom than ever before. \u201cThere\u2019s something about the agency \u2014 like, I get to control my body, myself, my story \u2014 that is so necessary to us feeling like the women we were meant to be,\u201d explained Washington. \u201cOur history [as Black women], particularly in this country but all over the diaspora, is so much about our bodies belonging to other people. So to be able to really have agency to call the shots, to be able to be the storytellers, is very empowering.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cox, who produced \u201cDisclosure,\u201d is bringing opportunities to other trans people in the industry, which is highly necessary for accurately telling their stories. \u201cEveryone in our film works in the business and often are the only trans people on set. So many of them talked about walking onto our set and everywhere they looked there was a trans person. And that was so integral in telling the story of transgender representation on-screen,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliminating being the only underrepresented individual in the room is crucial. \u201cWhen you\u2019re the \u201conly\u201d on set whether it\u2019s the only woman, the only Black person, the only Black woman, the only trans woman, you have all of this additional weight and responsibility to be speaking for your race, speaking for your people, speaking for your community, as opposed to being like an artist who also has the shared experience of belonging to that community,\u201d said Washington. In \u2018Little Fires Everywhere,\u2019 she experienced the power of inclusivity and how it helped her to gain multiple perspectives of what it means to be a Black mother\u2013\u2013not excluding her own experiences in motherhood, but adding layers and depth from different points of view.\u00a0\u00a0Read the full interview on <\/strong>Variety<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kerry Washington and Laverne Cox are working hard to provide opportunities for underrepresented artists on-screen and behind the scenes. In conversation with Variety\u2019s Angelique Jackson, Cox and Washington describe how becoming producers allowed them to have control over their work, which allows for more diversity and inclusion.  \u201cThe question for me has always been, \u2018How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[31,1102,723,51],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-featured","tag-kerry-washington","tag-laverne-cox","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}