In her new memoir 'Thicker Than Water,' Kerry Washington looks back on her time starring opposite Jamie Foxx in 'Ray.'
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The beloved artist and activist brings fans into her private world as she explores her career trajectory and intimate details of her upbringing. Washington is charting the course of her life after a shocking piece of news allows her to reevaluate who she is and what brought her to that point. Between the impact specific roles have had on her life and how personal traumas have shaped her, this book allows fans of Washington's work to get to know her like never before.
Playing Della Bea Robinson, one of Charles' wives, was Washington's first time doing accent work, and after putting in a lot of time to perfect her southern accent, she was worried about how it sounded while filming her first scene with Foxx — one where Ray teaches Della Bea to listen for the sound of a hummingbird. "Jamie said to me, 'I can tell how much work you've put into the accent,'" she recalls in the book. "But I can see you thinking about it.
Washington also recalls how during a scene they shot months later, Foxx stepped in while she was repeating herself in every take. A piece of advice he gave her to keep searching helped Washington break out of the cycle during the emotional scene where Della Bea finds Ray's heroin paraphernalia.
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