Kerry Washington for Adweek

By Alexei Hay...

Why did Confirmation speak to you, as an actress and producer? 
I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do, and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires. This story resonated with me because I had really personal memories, not as much about the hearings themselves, because I was probably about 13 when it happened, but I had real memories about how it affected my parents, their feelings about the hearings. And it was one of the first moments that I was made consciously aware of my own identity intersectionality: the idea that there may be times that I feel passionate about something as a person of color, and there may be times that I feel passionate about something as a woman, and there may be times when those two things are at odds with each other. So it was a poignant moment in my own developmental understanding of who I was.

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