Cover girl Kerry Washington shows off her perfect figure as she defends her decision to play a slave in Django Unchained

As she poses in stockings and suspenders, her long legs crossed, Kerry Washington shows off her perfect hourglass figure.
The actress plays cover girl on the cover of Uptown Girl, showing just why she was picked to star in Quentin Tarantino's new movie Django Unchained.
But while the role has made Kerry's profile skyrocket, the 35-year-old admitted that the choice to play a slave could be seen as controversial.
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Role of a lifetime: Kerry Washington tells Uptown magazine about starring in Quentin Tarantino's slave movie Django Unchained

 

But Kerry defended her choice, saying she hopes it shines a light on the reality of the past.
'If I were to say it's okay to play a lawyer but not a maid, or it's okay to play a professor but not a slave, that would be sort of spitting on the legacy of my grandmother, who was a maid on Park Avenue for years, or my ancestors in South Carolina, who came from slavery,' she explained.
'What's interesting about storytelling is we get to step into someone's experience for an hour and a half in the dark, and in the process of living through that journey we learn about ourselves.
'That's what it's all about to me.'

 

Big role: With Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained

She also said she found it amazing to have just two days between shooting scenes for her political thriller Scandal and for Django.
'I went from shooting in a slave shack with my character curled up in bed, terrified about the state of her future,' she says, 'to walking in heels outside of the White House on my way to meet the president’s chief of staff.'
And Kerry's hard work has paid off, with her fans including her Django co-star Jamie Foxx.
'I can’t say enough about the brilliance and toughness of her, especially in Django, where she’s amazingly vulnerable playing this damsel in distress throwback character,' he says. 'And then you look at the strength of what she’s doing on Scandal, where she’s in control and doing her thing.'