Kerry Washington on Thinking She Forgot to Thank Tyler Perry at NAACP Image Awards (Exclusive)

Kerry Washington chatted with “Extra’s” Mona Kosar Abdi and Adam Glassman on the red carpet at the 2025 SAG Awards.

Sharing that she was wearing Armani, she said, “I just put this on and thought, ‘I love it.’”

Kerry won the Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture award for "The Six Triple Eight" last night during the 56th NAACP Image Awards, and tonight she is presenting.

Washington explained, “I am so excited to be a presenter tonight and not nominated ’cause that’s the fun. You know, you get to just relax."

She went on, “I'm so grateful for the Image Award last night for ‘Six Triple Eight' and really that audiences all over the world really celebrated this film. I mean, to be a top 10 film in over 85 countries, that's like what? So many people loving this story, so I am grateful for that. But it is nice when you can say to your friends, 'You're a winner no matter what,' and inside, you're like, 'I’m so calm.'"

Mona asked her about the moment at the Image Awards when she rushed back onto the stage thinking she had forgotten to thank Tyler Perry.

She said, “I so was not expecting to win last night… When they said my name, I feel like I blacked out, so I don’t remember who I thanked, and then as I was walking off stage, I was like, 'Oh God, did I not thank Tyler?' And I didn't remember thanking him, so then I upended an entire live broadcast to thank someone I had already thanked, but that's how much I love Tyler Perry.

Kerry said she was excited to see so many people at the SAG Awards including Eddie Redmayne because he is good friends with her husband.

"It's a room full of people that I really love, and I don't get to se often enough," she said.

Gushing over her "Knives Out 3" co-star Andrew Scott, who was in attendance, she shared, "I love him so much. But our whole 'Knives Out' cast, like, we have a text chain. We actually still keep in touch with each other... We really are very close."

After taking one of Whitney Houston’s dresses out of the archive, Kerry shared what else she is keeping her eye on. "Anytime anything of Diahann Carroll’s goes on auction, I’m first in line," she said.