Jennifer Lopez Was Kerry Washington’s Childhood Dance Teacher

Kerry Washington learned how to tear up the floor from Jennifer Lopez.

In fact, the Scandal star learned all her dance moves from the “Let’s Get Loud” singer when they both attended the same Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx borough of New York City as kids. 

“Jennifer is not that much older than me, but she’s a little bit older than me,” Kerry said on the April 14 episode of the Good Hang With Amy Poehler podcast, “so she was one of the big girls at the Club.”

And when Kerry’s dance teacher Larry Maldonado was sick and in the hospital in the ‘80s, Jennifer jumped in to start teaching the dance class. 

“She was teaching the little girls classes,” Kerry, 49, explained. “If I was like eight, she was 16 or something like that. I learned hip-hop and flamenco. I learned to dance from Jennifer.”

“She’s never hired me to dance in any of her videos,” Kerry joked. “I don’t know what that says.”