Kerry Washington has been confirmed to portray a currently teaching law professor who was once on the forefront of combatting workplace sexual harassment.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of Washington's casting Thursday, announcing the lead actress in TV's "Scandal" will portray Anita Hill in an upcoming film for HBO. Hill is an attorney currently teaching social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
Titled "Confirmation," the film will focus on the 1991 U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas. During those confirmation hearings, according to ABC News, certain news outlets obtained an interview Hill gave to the FBI in which she accused Thomas of several different occasions of sexual harassment.
