The actress, who recently spoke about wanting to abandon the acting profession, also addressed the crowd that had assembled as part of the National Day of Solidarity.
attended a rally in support of her fellow members of SAG-AFTRA, which took place outside of Disney Studios in Burbank on Tuesday.
Front and center: The performer, 46, addressed the crowd that had assembled as part of the National Day of SolidarityWashington began her address to the assembled crowd by expressing viathat the striking members of SAG-AFTRA should not stand down until a satisfactory working agreement could be reached.
'When I wanted to be an actor, when I was a little girl dreaming about this job, I thought there was no way that I could do this because I thought that wanting to be an actor meant you had to want to be famous,' she said. 'We've come to a point in our history where just being a working actor...means I can't make a fair living,' she exclaimed.
Backstory: The performer went on to speak about her earlier years and her ambitions to enter the entertainment industry Supportive: Washington concluded by encouraging her fellow union members to keep striking and to stay strong in the face of increasing pressure from studios to return to work'It's not OK for other people to benefit while we do the hard work. That dream of being a working artist, that dream of making a living doing what we want to do, should not be impossible,' she said.
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