Kerry Washington Covers The New Issue Of Ebony Magazine

If you have not seen Scandal then you are on a long thing....Kerry Washington, the Scandal Starlet Olivia Wilde covers the March isssue of Ebony Magazine, layethers in leather and showing some skin. She reveals that she won't have played the role of Olivia if the President was black because it would seem like a replication of President Obama's life.
Question: would it have made any difference if the President was black?