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Viola Davis says when she was a young actor she thought she had to ‘make any hint of my Blackness disappear’
Darcy Schild
|February 14, 2021

Article taken from Insider.
Viola Davis spoke to The Telegraph about her starring role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and reflected on the first time she saw the August Wilson play when she was worked as an usher at a theater during college.
Davis, 55, was recently nominated for a Golden Globe Award under the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category for Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Davis told The Telegraph’s film critic Robbie Collin that she paid her way through theater school at Rhode Island College and later at The Julliard School in New York City. She recalled ushering one night and watching the theater’s onstage adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “almost stopped breathing.”
“It was like I was watching a famous singer that I loved in private, even though I didn’t even know who Ma Rainey was at all,” Davis said.
The “How to Get Away with Murder” actor went on to say that when she was a student at Julliard, she never performed any plays by Wilson, who famously wrote a cycle of 10 shows about African-Americans in the 20th century, all but one of which were set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The award-winning star said that this was largely because her graduating class at the time didn’t have enough Black students to cast in the shows.
“I can’t say that I’m not appreciative of my training there, but I did not find a sense of belonging. It was a place that taught classical, Eurocentric theatre as if it was the Bible — and for me, as a chocolate, kinky-haired girl, there was no way in,” Davis said.
She continued: “To perform in Shakespeare, or George Bernard Shaw, or Eugene O’Neill, I felt like what was required of me was to make any hint of my Blackness disappear, that it would somehow be a good thing if the audience could forget I was Black.”
Davis went on to win a Tony Award for her performance in Wilson’s “King Hedley II,” and an Academy Award for her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Wilson’s “Fences,” among many other accolades for her performances in “The Help” and “How to Get Away with Murder.”
She also told The Telegraph that she thinks “dark-skinned Black women” do not have the same freedoms as white actresses in the film industry.
“There is still a sense that a woman has to look a certain way and be a certain age in order to be sexual on screen. And if those rules are broken, they’re broken for white actresses only. And they’re wonderful white actresses — Meryl Streep in ‘Hope Springs,’ or Diane Keaton in ‘Something’s Gotta Give.’ But I don’t feel like that same freedom has been extended to black women, especially dark-skinned black women. I simply don’t see it,” Davis said.
As The Telegraph reported, Davis’ next role is as the executive producer for “First Ladies,” a Showtime series in which she’ll play Michelle Obama.




Finding Me is Viola Davis’ story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero’s journey. Deeply personal, brutally honest, and riveting, Finding Me is a timeless and spellbinding memoir that will capture hearts and minds around the globe.
The book will be released on April 26, 2022 and is now available for pre-order
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BLACK LIVES MATTER, a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
HUNGER IS, a joint charitable program of the Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), is designed to build awareness and raise funds in an effort to eradicate childhood hunger in America. Funds raised through Hunger Is directly benefit programs focused on combating childhood hunger and improving health-related outcomes across the United States.
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