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Kerry Washington Reveals That Jamie Foxx Taught Her How to Be a Leader · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: It was seventeen years ago that Carry Washington and Jamie
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Speaker 2: Fox shared screen time in the powerful biopic Ray that
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Speaker 2: won Jamie oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles. But
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Speaker 2: the valuable lessons that Kerry absorbed by working alongside him
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Speaker 2: have stayed with her ever since, which she revealed in
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Speaker 2: her new memoir Thicker than Water. She calls Jamie one
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Speaker 2: of the most wonderful actors she's ever worked with, adding
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Speaker 2: on a film set, every actor's assigned a number based
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Speaker 2: on the importance of the character they're playing. The number
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Speaker 2: one comes with a certain implied responsibility to the film
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Speaker 2: and the artisans making it. Years later, on the set
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Speaker 2: of Scandal, whenever anybody complimented me on my leadership skills
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Speaker 2: as the number one on the call sheet, I was
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Speaker 2: always sure to credit Jamie for setting the best possible example,
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Speaker 2: both on screen and off. Jamie is invested in bringing
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Speaker 2: out the best in everyone around him. Carry's memoir Thicker
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Speaker 2: than Water's out.
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Speaker 1: Now that's Direct from Hollywood.