Kerry Washington would be open to reuniting with her Scandal costar Tony Goldwyn on the set of Law & Order . Washington, 47, learned that Goldwyn, 64, hoped to recruit her to join the cast in an interview with Entertainment Tonight . “This is the first time I’m hearing [that] breaking news,” Washington said in a story published Wednesday, July 10.
“Honestly, when Tony Goldwyn tells me to do something, usually the answer is yes. So we’ll just have to figure out the when and the how of it all.” Washington and Goldwyn both appeared in all 124 episodes of Scandal , the Shonda Rhimes drama that ran for seven seasons on ABC from 2012 through 2018.
Goldwyn now portrays DA Nicolas Baxter on Law & Order following Sam Waterston ’s exit from the show. He was asked in June whether he would be open to seeing Washington appear on the show. “I’m all for it,” he told People .
“I have been sort of needling her about it.” Not that Goldwyn isn’t already enamored with his new castmates. His character entered the show in the second half of the most recent season, and he said the experience has been “been really fun.
” He added, “Toward the last few episodes, I really felt starting to settle in, and it’s a beautiful group of people and really wonderful collection of actors as Law & Order always has.” This isn’t the first time the two have discussed teaming up again to recreate the chemistry that their Scandal characters, “fixer” Olivia Pope and President Fi.
