‘Scandal’ Season 4 Spoilers: Does Kerry Washington Drink As Much Red Wine In Real Life As Olivia Pope? Find Out How Similar/Different They Are

"Scandal" season 4 is coming into its fourth week on ABC and Kerry Washington spoke to Yahoo! News about how she's similar (and different!) from her character Olivia Pope. So does Kerry Washington drink as much red wine as Olivia in real life?

"I don't! Maybe once or twice a year, especially if I am traveling somewhere, but I am not a big wine drinker," Kerry Washington told Yahoo!

"On the show it's just grape juice because I would never be able to memorize all my lines-and I would never remember them if I was really drinking wine."

Washington added that she goes on a "crazy sugar high" after drinking all the "wine" that her character Olivia Pope downs in "Scandal."

And what about her fashion? How does Kerry Washington's fashion sense differ from that of Olivia's?

"I take a lot more fashion risks than Olivia," Kerry said. "She dresses like a professional, while I wear a lot more patterns, a lot more color, I can have a little bit more fun. I mean she has a lot of fun in fashion, but it's all t; I tend to have a little bit more quirky fun."

Washington went through a lot before "Scandal" season 4. She gave birth to her daughter Isabelle in May, and had to shoot season 3 while hiding her growing baby bump.

As we previously reported, Kerry Washington revealed her post-baby weight loss on the 2014 Emmys Red Carpet.

"A lot of working out," she said. "That's it!"

But she added to Yahoo! that there was a lot of pressure for her to go back to the way her body was before her pregnancy.

"It is really interesting for me being an actress, because I feel like I have a responsibility to myself and to my family to have gone through this miraculous journey of pregnancy and birth and all of that and be healthy and sane and present and loving to myself and to my family. And then at the same time I have this responsibility to Olivia Pope, to be that character and maintain that essence of that character even if my belly is ever expanding. How do I maintain my identity and the posture and the elegance and the spirit of the character while we are shooting her from the neck up?"

Watch "Scandal" season 4 Thursdays at 10pm ET on ABC, 

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