Cover Story: With LittleFiresEverywhere, Kerry Washington is ready to be heard
. All her projects operate on the belief that, as Washington puts it, “everyone is, and deserves to be, the center of their own story — and that there aren’t certain kinds of people who get to be the leaders or protagonists, or others who must be supporting characters.”
“Little Fires,” which marks Washington’s first serialized television role since “Scandal,” follows Mia and Elena , two mothers whose contrasting lives and views clash to catastrophic effect in Shaker Heights, a pristine and seemingly progressive Ohio suburb. Set in the ’90s, the show grapples with issues of class, race, immigration and sexuality in a way that resonates with piercing and downright alarming clarity today.
Washington calls portraying Mia a “coming of age” for her as an actor, particularly in the way it required her to project emotion through weighty silences rather than the dense monologues that solidified her stature as a TV star. “My lived experience has allowed me to, in this role, feel like I could fill space without a whole song and dance,” she says.
To tackle “Little Fires Everywhere,” Washington and the team dove deep into their own experiences to find the kernels of hard truth that might lie within. “It’s very vulnerable material and work,” says Washington. “We all took a lot of risks in revealing our inner lives to each other, our perspectives and our thoughts throughout the process. Not only did that vulnerability require opening up; it demanded a certain level of willingness from everyone involved to admit what they didn’t know.
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