January 17, 2012 / 3:09PM 174 notes

kerouacs: I remember when I played the character in Doubt. It was a character that not a lot of black people embraced. Because they didn’t like her. I think a lot of women face that, in general. A lot more than men. Black women really face it. We are always overly-sanctified in movies. Overly-nurturing, overly-sympathetic. And to find that place where you’re “messy” is very difficult. It’s even difficult to negotiate it with a director on set. When you’re coming from a place of being a trained actor and you understand human behavior, and you understand that it’s your job to create a human being, that when people sit in the audience they just need to connect the dots. They need to be able to say this is a person that’s driven by needs and this is what drives them. And it’s hard to create that human being because there’s so many facets of your personality they want to stifle because of this [gestures to the skin of her arm]. (watch)   If Rooney wasn’t going to win the Golden Globe, I thought for sure that Viola would win it. THANK YOU!

kerouacs:

I remember when I played the character in Doubt. It was a character that not a lot of black people embraced. Because they didn’t like her. I think a lot of women face that, in general. A lot more than men. Black women really face it. We are always overly-sanctified in movies. Overly-nurturing, overly-sympathetic. And to find that place where you’re “messy” is very difficult. It’s even difficult to negotiate it with a director on set. When you’re coming from a place of being a trained actor and you understand human behavior, and you understand that it’s your job to create a human being, that when people sit in the audience they just need to connect the dots. They need to be able to say this is a person that’s driven by needs and this is what drives them. And it’s hard to create that human being because there’s so many facets of your personality they want to stifle because of this [gestures to the skin of her arm]. (watch)  

If Rooney wasn’t going to win the Golden Globe, I thought for sure that Viola would win it.

THANK YOU!

Viola DavisBlack and beautiful

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    remember when I played the character in Doubt. It was a character...not a lot of black...
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    What an amazing woman, such beautiful, honest, intelligent human being.
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    If Rooney wasn’t going to win the Golden Globe, I thought for sure that Viola would win it.
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    This is just about how I feel about Gwen. She is too good. I hope TPTB let her be messy next series.
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