Pucker up, Kristin Chenoweth—you could be in for some same-sex smoochin’.

Back in April, Chenoweth not only told us about her longtime hope to star in a biopic about late lesbian pop soul singer Dusty Springfield but also that she wants Kerry Washington to play her lover.

What does Ms. Washington think about this? Well, we just got off the phone with her and…

Washington says she’d jump at the chance to lock lips with the big-piped pint-size entertainer.

After reading our original interview with Chenoweth, Washington ran into her at an L.A. eatery. “I was like, ‘I would love to be your lesbian lover!’” Washington says from New York City, where she’s starring on Broadway in playwright David Mamet’s Race. “It’s very exciting. I feeling like I’ve been waiting to make out with her forever.”

And speaking of making out, that’s exactly what Washington got to do with hot stuff Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie in Night Catches Us, an independent drama premiering later this month at the Sundance Film Festival.

Written and directed by first-time feature film director Tanya Hamilton, Night centers on two former friends (Washington and Mackie) who came of age during the Black Power Movement in 1960s Philadelphia.

Spoiler alert! Don’t read any further if you don’t want to learn about one of the movie’s most powerful scenes.

For the second time, Washington and Mackie had a love scene together. Their first on-camera hanky-panky was six years ago in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me.

“I will tell you this: Doing our second love scene was no easier than doing the first one,” Washington said. “It was even more awkward the second time around.”

Why?

“Because it’s Tanya’s first time as a director, she didn’t want to say ‘cut’ because she didn’t want to ruin it for us,” Washington explained. “So he and I would be like, ‘Cut! Enough, enough! I’m not kissing him anymore!’ ”

We should all have such problems at work.

From E! Online

Kerry Washington has lived in several cities, but when it comes to playing favorites, she takes her lead fr om her Yorkie-shih tzu mix, who prefers New York. “She likes the cooler weather and the change in seasons,” says Washington of her pooch, Josie B. “There’s much more interesting stuff to sniff on the street here!” The 32-year-old Bronx native makes her Broadway debut as the latest of David Mamet’s diabolical women in “Race.” And while the former swim team member at Spence now calls the East Side home, she’s still got a soft spot for The Bronx. “There’s a real diversity [here] that you don’t find in a lot of places,” she says. “I don’t mean that in the obvious sense, but that there are so many industries, so many ways people are making lives and making a living.” This is her New York.

1) Jackson Hole, 1270 Madison Ave., at 91st Street
“Jackson Hole was a real home away from home for all us Spence girls — I loved their burgers, chili fries, cheese fries, onion fries. We’d hang out around the corner. When I’m in the mood for a burger, that’s where you’ll find me, though now [that] there’s one in Midtown I go to that one more often.”

2) Whole Foods, Time Warner Center, Broadway at 59th Street
“My go-to place for a quick dinner or lunch. There’s a whole section for sitting. There’s an amazing salad bar, hot foods, a sushi bar, a dessert bar . . . you could do a five-course meal at Whole Foods, but then you couldn’t stand on the express line!”

3) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
“I used to go to the roof garden as a moody teenager, looking for a place to contemplate life. This was a place my mom and I went together often. There’s a terrific photo exhibit there now, Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans.’ ”

4) Precious Pets, 895 First Ave., at 50th Street
“I was nervous about bringing Josie B. to a new place when I moved back East, but they do a great job, with really precision cuts, and they even document their first session. They have a wonderful gift store with dog bowls and leashes, and there’s a day-care center for dogs, too, so if you can’t pick them up right away, they can stay and play.”

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Kerry Washington’s biggest film roles are pretty much what you’d expect from a rising star — rom-coms like I Think I Love My Wife, thrillers like Lakeview Terrace, Oscar bait like Ray and The Last King of Scotland. Bronx-born, Spence-educated, and a little bit granola, Washington naturally dreamed of Broadway, but her theater experience to date has been almost exclusively political: Eve Ensler’s V-Day shows, readings for Howard Zinn, high-school-appropriate skits on teen sex. Her starring role in David Mamet’s implicitly provocative new play, Race (opening Sunday), may be the least political act she’s ever performed onstage — and by far the most surprising.

Back when Washington wrote a college paper on Mamet’s plays, “I didn’t really see how it would be possible” to be in one. “I guess a very non-traditionally cast Glengarry, you know? I mean he didn’t write this with me in mind, but I feel really excited to be alive at this point.” In Race, Washington plays a young black legal assistant, the third wheel in a power struggle between two superiors — David Alan Grier and James Spader — over whether to represent a white man accused of assaulting a black woman.

The topic may be new for the playwright, but the style and structure seem awfully familiar. Reminiscent of Oleanna and Speed-the-Plow, it sounds like a typical Mamet power play, complete with politically charged role reversals. “I would say there are some huge similarities” with previous Mamet, Washington says, “and some huge differences. There are some Mametisms that appear for all of the characters in the play. But there’s something very different about her.”

Washington is even more reluctant to venture into racial politics than she is to discuss what’s new about her character. Up until now, about as many minorities have occupied a Mamet script as have sat in his last stage setting, the Oval Office. Having campaigned for Obama alongside Kal Penn, does Washington feel just a bit like the president? “I would never make that analogy,” she says twice. “Please do not put that in my mouth.” Mamet, who in the past decade has become a prolific expounder on public issues, wrote an op-ed in the Times in September on race, “a subject on which it is near impossible to tell the truth.” Washington will only say of it, “I do not think he’s becoming a spokesperson on race. And I didn’t sign up to work with that part of him. I signed up to work with a playwright. I was not hesitant to play this role, I will say.” The one moment in rehearsals that had Washington cringing (to the point where Grier came over with a reassuring hug)? It involved too many words beginning with the letter “f,” not “n.”

From New York Magazine