Kerry Washington displayed photos of black men killed by police backstage during American Son play
Kerry Washington displayed images of teenager Trayvon Martin, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Philando Castile and other black men and women killed by police backstage during her run in Broadway’s American Son.The actress, who starred in the New York production as a woman grieving the loss of her son at the hands of law enforcement officers in 2018, reveals she put the images up in her dressing room as a reminder of the unsettling true stories that inspired the play. “I had a wall of my dressing room at the theatre dedicated to images of a lot of these young men,” she tells Deadline.