Kerry Washington and Anika Noni Rose talk about how their roles in For Colored Girls affected them, getting all the stars in sync, working with Tyler Perry, what young audiences get from the film.

Philly 360° catches up with Kerry Washington to discuss her current projects and what she loves about Philadelphia.

Another Tyler Perry movie is hitting theaters this weekend. “For Colored Girls” is a screen version of a twenty-year-old play created by Ntozake Shange that portrays various female characters dealing with their life’s hardships and ordeals.

Kerry Washington co-stars as a part of an all-star cast including some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Whoopi Goldberg, Thandi Newton and Loretta Devine. Kerry plays Kelly, a social worker pained by her inability to make a difference.

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When Kerry Washington was 17, she was not playing around when it came to sex. The budding starlet was hard at work on her craft as a teenager with an acting gig that educated as well as entertained audiences.

“I had this great job with a theater company called Star Theater,” Washington recalls on the latest episode of “When I Was 17,” premiering Saturday at 11 a.m. “We would go into schools and community centers, and we’d do this show about issues like sex and drugs.”

The job required Washington to instruct others on a very important skill — although it may have been an unorthodox extracurricular activity for a teen girl.

“So when I was 17, I was teaching other people how to put condoms on … bananas,” Washington remembers. The budding actress picked up a reputation as a teacher always armed for a lesson.

“Anytime anyone needed to know how to put a condom on, she would just pull out a banana and a condom and do a demonstration for us,” Washington’s pal Allison adds. “She was a sex-pert.”

The “For Colored Girls” star doesn’t deny her status as the go-to gal for learning how to get it on safely.

“I was kind of known, amongst my friends, as ‘the condom lady,’ ” Washington says in the episode, which also features Akon and Donald Glover. “Because of my job, I always had condoms and dental dams and pamphlets.”

Washington remains proud of the role she played both in and out of the theater company as a sex-ed resource.

“I did my job saving lives when I was 17,” she says.

Kerry Washington came through to chop it up in the studio. She was fantabulously gorgeous and slim. We discussed all sorts of stuff like the history of the movie, what it was like working with such an all -star cast, plus the importance of voting!!! It is voting day! Get out and vote! VOTE OR DIE! It’s that serious!!!