Actress Viola Davis is thrilled to be on the cover of InStyle magazine’s December 2020 issue.
Viola Davis: “My strength is my Authenticity.” The 55-yearr old actress took to Instagram and shared a series of photos on Monday and she is looking gorgeous.
In an interview with Laura Brown, the Editor in Chief of InStyle Magazine, Davis talked about her role in the new upcoming movie ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’.
August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe, starring Viola Davis & Chadwick Boseman as Levee, arrives on Netflix December 18.
“Everything attracted me to Ma Rainey, Davis told Laura Brown, especially the idea that I didn’t feel I could play her. But she also really reminds me of the women I grew up with, all my aunties and relatives, the people who were bigger in stature whom I saw as so beautiful.”
Davis also talked about her late co-star Chadwick Boseman’s last role in the movie:
“Boseman was a beautiful man and a great artist. It’s like what Issa Rae said: He was ours as African-Americans Davis said. He was someone who had a quality that very few have today, whether young or old, which is a total commitment to the art form of acting. Regardless of ego, regardless of any of it. He was with the same agent he had when he started his career.”
“And when you were with him on the set, he absolutely did not want celebrity treatment. He hated that. He really did. We actually had a little discussion about that. He said, “Viola, I don’t mind the work. I don’t mind all the hours. It’s the other stuff that exhausts me.” He hated the celebrity part. I have to say, we all do. Because we have to be a persona that we just don’t know.”
