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2017 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony - Arrivals

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Black girls can be engineers, astrophysicists or analysts like Kerry Washington’s new character in Disney Pixar’s third installment of their kid-popular Cars series.

Washington will lend her voice to the Cars 3 character Natalie Certain, a mathematician whose book-smarts can sometime cloud her windshield judgement.

Cars 3 hits theaters June 16, 2017.

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