'Scandal' returns in 62 days. As the Gladiators ready their mental states to find out where Olivia went on the plane that flew into the sunset, at the end of the season 3 finale-- Kerry Washington is slowly returning to the spotlight, when she's not being a mom.

Recently, the actress sat down for an interview with author Demetria Lucas, at the 2014 BlogHer convention. Though she could not say too much, she did give small glimpses into what fans could expect when the hit ABC show returns.

Check out the highlights from their conversation, below. She discussed some great tidbits about her life as a mom, actress, and wife.


Demetria: Sept 25 is when Scandal is back out. Can you tell us anything at all about season 4?

KW: Well I now know where the plane was going, I wish I could tell you cause it's really good. I can't tell you because I would give it away. The way the last season ended
what happens to Olivia Pope is kind of what you would do to a character you were writing off of the show. I was a little concerned but I am still on the show which is good.
It is like a reset button has been pushed. Last season, I feel like Olivia stepped away from it all to try to take some control over her life. So the new season picks up here.

Demetria: Last season there were lots of deaths, Jerry, James, Harrison.

Kerry: Well we don't know, it's sort of a cliff hanger. We don't know a thing until we read the scrips. It's so fun to be on social media with fans because we have no idea what's coming and we can identify with the level of excitement from the fans.

Demetria: Whose idea was it for the cast to be tweeting and on social media.

Kerry: It's weird everyone is working working, and then tweeting during breaks, and then back to work when they call action again. Everybody is on twitter. How that happened was sort of a fun team work situation. I have a great social media manager, Allison Peters. I was terrified of social media because I'm a very private person. I dind't know how to engage while still being private. Allison helped me find a way to have a voice that was still authentic and be engaged but not feel like I"m giving too much of myself. I wanted the cast to be on social media, but I didn't want to be the bossy lead actor. So I asked Shaunda Rhymes (creator of the show) to ask everyone. We were all a fan of our own show and all of us got on twitter every Thursday and got behind the show, appreciated our fans. Social Media and our fans saved our show.

Demetria: How do you choose your roles?

Kerry: My roles have been all over the place. Up until Scandal, I've had a really full and rich career. I prided myself on disappearing into the character. People don't tie one character into the other. Scandal has changed that, because there's no disappearing. I'm in people's houses at the same time every week. For me the way I choose my work is the material. It's all in the page and the writing. Wanting to work with the writing and the directing, and immense talent.

Demetria: What was the pull for scandal particularly?

Kerry: I wasn't really looking to do a network TV show. I really liked my film career. But then my agent told me it was Shonda Rhymes (sp). My agent told me it was almost like she had written it for me even though we had never met. I am a lot like the character because she is so complicated and we're all complicated. I was looking for a role that had that kind of three-dimensionality. My interest in politics and human rights and then I got to the last 3 pages of the script, it was like oh my gosh she slept with the president? And then I was hooked and I really wanted the role. So then I auditioned and begged and pleaded and I got it.

To read their full conversation, click here.

"Scandal" returns on Sept. 25th to ABC. Get your thumbs active, now.

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