Viola Davis is determined to create content she is proud of and has revealed why in a new interview with the ‘Hollywood Reporter.’
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The brilliant actress spoke to the author Brene Brown about her life and legacy and revealed that she isn’t proud of some of the movies she has made in the past.
The first part of my road trip was my family history. Being the child of an alcoholic. Coming from domestic violence. Coming from that level of trauma and recognizing that I was traumatized. The minute that I recognized that I suffer from anxiety and leftover residual trauma from my past experience, that it actually did hurt me, that was one big load lifted off.
She added…
Then all of a sudden, now I am at a point in my career where I’ve always said, ‘As soon as I get to this part of my career, I’ve made it. I’m on Mount Everest. Then I got there. I had the Oscar, I have two Tonys, I have the Emmy, I have a big house, and still — bam — unfulfilling. Then I realized it’s because I’m not living for significance and legacy. And this is a big one, and this sort of hurts a little bit: I’m finally admitting to myself that a lot of the jobs I’ve taken in the past because I knew that they would further my career have been things that I have not been proud of. They put more money in the bank, they raised my status, but at night they keep me up.
One of those projects is the film adaptation of ‘The Help.’
I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, ‘I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963,’ I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of this movie.
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Isn’t this information u gave us before. She said this about three times and y’all reported this already earlier this year.
Wtf is she talking about? The maids in The Help told us exactly how they felt about the people they worked for. And Minnie more famously than all of the other women put together. The whole purpose of the movie was to give voices to those women.
Viola Davis is brilliant on HTGAWM, but she’s always giving angst about something. She should just be glad she’s now on top and getting recognition for her work.
You’re missing the nuance. Even though the maids show what they’re dealing with, it’s their stories filtered through Emma Stone’s character because she’s writing a book. Viola is saying she was hoping The Help would take you deeper into their maid’s experience told from their point of view.