Inside the Stand Up to Cancer Rehearsals With Kerry Washington and Eric Stonestreet—Watch Now!

Get all the details on Friday's fundraising telecast

By Zach Johnson Sep 05, 2014 7:00 PMTags
Watch: Kerry Washington & Eric Stonestreet Stand Up to Cancer

Stand Up to Cancer is just hours away!

Kerry Washington and Eric Stonestreet rehearsed on Thursday, where they explained their involvement with Friday's telecast. "It's an honor to be here. My mom's a breast cancer survivor, so it has personal meaning," Washington, 37, said. "I just think it's such a small thing to be able to be part of such a special, special movement...My mother inspires me in all ways, and being a survivor is just one of them."

SU2C will air on 32 broadcast and cable networks and stream live on Hulu and Yahoo.

ABS, CBS, Fox and NBC are donating one hour of simultaneous, commercial-free viewing at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. CST. The event will also be broadcast on ABC Family, American Forces Network, Bravo, Cooking Channel, Discovery Fit & Health, E!, Encore, Encore Espanol, EPIX, ESPNEWS, Fox Sports 2, FXM, HBO, HBO Latino, Hulu, ION Television, LMN, Logo TV, MLB Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, Palladia, Pivot, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, Starz, TNT, Vh1 and Yahoo.

"I think the fact that everybody comes together to do this—all the networks, all the people that come out—it's because so many of us have been affected by cancer," Scandal actress Washington explained.

The Django Unchained star said, "When it affects you and it affects your world, it's hard to not say, 'I'm going to show up and do what I can for one night.' It's so little to ask to be able to make a difference."

Stonestreet got involved with the organization several years ago. "It unites doctors. It gets everybody talking and on the same team. There's no competitiveness," he said. "Everybody wants to eradicate cancer and work together. And all the money that's raised for Stand Up to Cancer goes to research."

The 42-year-old Modern Family star's mother is a two-time cancer survivor, but sadly, he's lost friends and family members, too. "I stand up for my mom. I stand up for my uncle. I stand up for my grandpas," Stonestreet said. "I stand up for you [the TV viewers]...We're all in the same boat with this disease."

Stonestreet, a two-time Emmy Award winner, also offered a message of hope those who are currently battling cancer. "Never lose faith and never lose hope, because the people here at this organization and the doctors and the scientists that Stand Up to Cancer have, I promise you, they are doing everything they can to find a treatment that will make...the cancer livable," he said. "You've gotta keep the faith."

(E!, Bravo, NBC and Oxygen are all part of the NBCUniversal family.)