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Entity shares how Kerry Washington is fighting Hollywood's lack of diversity.

Kerry Washington is fed up with the lack of diversity in Hollywood…and she’s doing something about it.

The “Scandal” star has made it her mission to widen the amount of representation in the entertainment business.

Serving as a producer for projects like her acclaimed HBO film “Confirmation” has put her in a position where she can prioritize hiring other women, minorities and people from the LGBTQ community. But she wishes there were more people in power fighting the same battle.

“Being alone in the room is exhausting,” Washington said during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival’s annual Women in Film Brunch. “You feel like you have to stand up for the entire gender or race.”

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After analyzing over 21,000 characters and behind-the-scenes workers in over 400 films and TV shows released from September 2014 through August 2015, researchers at the University of Southern California found that there is, indeed, an incredibly low number of women and minorities in showbiz.

The study, titled “Inclusion or Invisibility? Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity in Entertainment,” reveals that only 33.5 percent of speaking characters were female, despite the fact that women make up half America’s population. Additionally, only 28 percent of characters were from racial or ethnic groups, although minorities make up at least 40 percent of the U.S.

Behind the scenes, only seven percent of directors of the top 250 domestic grossing films in 2016 were women, according to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.

“These numbers make my heart sink,” award-winning director and producer Liz Elkington recently told ENTITY.  “It seems crazy that an antiquated ‘old boys club’ mentality still exists to this degree.”

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With these numbers, it’s no wonder Kerry Washington feels alone. Despite these sentiments, however, the 39-year-old actress is fired up and ready to carry the fight.

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“[It’s about] making sure people in society who we’ve labeled as other have a seat at the table,” she said, before criticizing Hollywood’s idea that it’s a “risk” to make movies about women and people of color.

“Why do we allow this myth of risk to remain?” she added.

And based on the enormous success of “Hidden Figures,” a historical movie centered around the inspirational story of three African American women, this “risk” is worth taking.

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The film has dominated the box office, making almost $87 million in the U.S. alone since its release at the start of 2017, and has received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

But according to Washington, even if the call for more diverse films and TV shows doesn’t work, it shouldn’t matter.

“The truth is, if it doesn’t work, so what? So many movies don’t work, and who cares?” she said. “We should do it anyway. We have just as much a chance of having it work as anyone else.”

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