Monica Potter, Kerry Washington, Kate Mara, Connie Britton, Anna Gunn and Elisabeth Moss revealed the toilet-cleaning jobs they'd like to forget in an uncensored chat with The Hollywood Reporter about making it in the competitive world of series TV and how to respond when fans say "You look so much bigger on camera!" Read the complete story here.
On this season of ABC's Scandal, her Olivia Pope had to handle the appearance of her estranged father and a leak about her affair with the president.
"I come from a family where people really participate in the democratic process. I don’t think that being an actor should prevent me from continuing to do the things I do," Washington says of her interest in politics, but admits she has experienced "blowback." "After I spoke at the Democratic National Convention — our show has a very active life on Twitter and Facebook — I couldn’t go near any of it because there were threats to my life, sexism and racism."
Her Mad Men character, Peggy Olson, quit Sterling Cooper, but she’s back working with Don Draper on the AMC series.
Britton portrays veteran country music sensation Rayna Jaymes on ABC's Nashville, which will return for a second season.
Portraying Walter White's wife and accomplice, Skyler, on AMC's Breaking Bad netted her an Emmy nomination, her first, in 2012.
Her character on NBC's Parenthood, Kristina Braverman, battled breast cancer in season four.
As cub reporter Zoe Barnes on Netflix's House of Cards, Mara proves savvier than she seems when she gets entangled with D.C.’s House Majority Whip.
From left: Kate Mara, Monica Potter, Kerry Washington, Connie Britton, Elisabeth Moss and Anna Gunn were photographed April 6 at Milk Studios in Hollywood. Said Moss of her fellow roundtable participants: “That’s what’s so great about all these women here today: We’re all completely different-looking, you know? We’re all beautiful, but real women.”
"I mean, I was playing the tree in The Wizard of Oz for the first 10 years of my acting career," Kate Mara (second from left) says of starting out.
"I worked at The Gap and discovered I am not a good folder," Connie Britton says of a job she had before making it as an actress.
"I wasn’t really aware it was happening until people started telling me, 'Your character is a bitch. Did you know that?’ And I was like, ‘I do now!' " Anna Gunn, right, says of talking to die-hard fans of Breaking Bad.
This is the first of THR’s annual series of exclusive discussions with the year’s most compelling television talents. As awards season unfolds, look for roundtables with comedy actors, comedy actresses, drama showrunners, comedy showrunners, drama actors and reality talent.