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Viola Davis attends the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
Viola Davis | “I think that it happens in most actresses’ careers, that you get parts that are a little beneath your talent and your skill set. I’m a character actress. A lot of those roles were two, three days on a movie, five days on a movie, eight days on a movie… and the character doesn’t even have much of an arc. But you do it because you want to work and you’re hungry. And so you dive into it. But you certainly aren’t challenged. It leaves you wanting more. But all of a sudden the tide has changed. With the movie Fences, now I’m No. 2 on the call sheet, next to Washington. I’m there every day. I’m in every scene. I’m battling it out, I have a huge arc, and now all of a sudden, I feel alive in a way that I didn’t before.”
And Superman, all the DC Comics, and I’m not just saying that because I’m doing Suicide Squad. I just was in love. I just thought to myself because I was bullied growing up, I said, ’If I could be Wonder Woman I could take care of all the bullies, and I could be cute doing it.’
It’s not so much about the Oscars; that’s aiming small. The biggest issue, the biggest obstacle in diversity in Hollywood are the movies that are being made and greenlit. It doesn’t matter if you have 3.000 Academy members who are people of color if there are no movies out there with people of color to vote on.
I’ve been out there for 30 years. I’ve gotten two Tony Awards. I’ve done Broadway, Off-Broadway. I’ve come out of Julliard. I’ve done television, film, all of it. But there is not the same opportunity for me. Even though I would say that, if given the chance, I could show people that I could do just as well as any one of my Caucasian counterparts. But there’s a glass ceiling for me. And so now I’m at the top of the food chain for an actress of color. I’m not at the top of the food chain for an actress. - Viola DavisThis woman speaks nothing but gospel.
Do you think boycotting the Oscars is the answer? I don’t know. I mean, I wouldn’t mind it. I’m a kind of revolutionary. But I think it’s more important to boycott the system itself. When you plop down money to see a film, you have to be more demonstrative about what you want to see. We do it on TV all the time. That’s why shows either stay on the air or they go. It’s the same thing with movies. – Viola Davis