When a gorilla is charging toward you, scratch your head and chew leaves? This was Kerry Washington's survival technique when she almost got attacked while she was filming The Last King of Scotland in Uganda.

At the Movado Future Legends Gala at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Washington, a graduate of the posh Spence school, told Webster Hall's Baird Jones, "I got way too close to a female gorilla, who started toward me. If you run, they run after you. So I did my best gorilla imitation: chewing leaves, head scratch, kneeling. I remembered watching animal behavior on TV and zoo trips." It worked. "I would not be having this interview now if that gorilla had attacked me."

Because I never really want to see a black person doing a gorilla imitation, even if it is for survival, I'm going to try not to picture this in my head. [PS]
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