Because people can’t reconcile the Blackness with spiritual awakening and sexuality.
It’s too much it’s too much when you look like ‘my maid Louise.’
So, that has not changed."
Viola Davis at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
We could talk about colorism, we could talk about race.
“Once again, that goes into ideology and ethos and mentality,” she continued.
“That’s speaking in the abstract.
Why aren’t you hiring a dark-skinned woman?”
“I thought, ‘And now what?'”
she added of her post-Helpcareer.
Davis admitted that similar periods for her were a “bottom” point in her life.
“That was my response to that.
That’s why my husband and I have JuVee Productions.”
Watch Davis discuss her career in the video above.
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