May 28, 2025
VIOLA DAVIS 📹 78th annual Cannes Film Festival
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VIOLA DAVIS 📹 78th annual Cannes Film Festival
Viola Davis on The Hot Ones
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
I took all my felings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom! And it didn't take me no eighteen years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom!
Viola Davis as Rose Maxson in Fences (2016, dir. Denzel Washington)
SUICIDE SQUAD DIR. DAVID AYER ‧ 2016
VIOLA DAVIS Number One on the Call Sheet ⭒ Episode 2: Black Leading Women in Hollywood
Viola Davis photographed by Keith Major for EBONY Magazine (2022)
I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to be put in a box. I want it to be kind of a redefinition of who were are. If I can even achieve that in a tiny way, I'll be good. I'll be good.
HAPPY 58TH BIRTHDAY, VIOLA DAVIS (Born on August 11th, 1965)
VIOLA DAVIS + MAJOR INDUSTRY AWARDS
We get probably a tenth of what a Caucasian woman gets. And I’m number one on the call sheet, and then I have to go in and I have to hustle for my worth.
I got the Oscar, I got the Emmy, I got the two Tonys, I’ve done Broadway, I’ve done off-Broadway, I’ve done TV, I’ve done film, I’ve done all of it. I have a career that’s probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver - They all came out of Yale, they came out of Julliard, they came out of NYU. They had the same path as me.
And yet, I am nowhere near them. Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities, nowhere near close to it. I have to constantly get on that phone, and people say, “You’re a black Meryl Streep. You are, and we love you. We love you. There is no one like you.”
Okay, then if there’s no one like me - you think I’m that - you pay me when I’m worth. You give me what I’m worth.