Huge news for Kerry Washington! According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress also known as Olivia Pope will play Anita Hill in a new HBO movie calledConfirmation. The movie will follow Clarence Thomas’s 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, in which Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment. Hill is currently a professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

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