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Viola Davis reflects on "The Woman King"
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9/15/2022
"Tap into your warrior spirit."
In "The Woman King," she plays a general leading an all-female warrior unit in West Africa. Viola Davis explains why it's a metaphor for taking her power back in Hollywood ...
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As black women we are worthy of opening a movie, of being global, of people filling up theaters,
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that we literally can make money at the box office,
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we can be at the center of the narrative, and that we are profoundly beautiful.
00:30
Some things are worth fighting for.
00:34
The title in the movie alone is sort of a great metaphor for this point in my life, in my career.
00:41
This film is about my agency and my autonomy as an artist and as a black woman,
00:47
a dark-skinned black woman in Hollywood.
00:50
Have I had some roles in the past that have been terrific roles?
00:55
Yes, there have been terrific roles, but more often than not,
00:59
I have not had autonomy.
01:01
I have had so many roles where I've had to fill in the gap.
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I've had to do the work to humanize them.
01:07
They were definitely characters on the periphery, not explored at all.
01:13
This is a fully realized, the whole story is absolutely fully realized,
01:19
in terms of their humanity, in terms of what they did,
01:22
in terms of it being an action historical drama,
01:25
in terms of the fact that my production company with my husband, Julius Tenen,
01:30
produced the film.
01:31
We fought for it.
01:32
You know, the fight has been real.
01:34
That's the difference.
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The difference is ownership.
01:37
I want people to tap into their warrior spirit,
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because I'm telling you one thing that I've learned on the road, just as a human being,
01:45
is that life is a fight.
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Life is a beautiful struggle.
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It's a fight.
01:50
But if you are trying to achieve comfort,
01:55
then we are not moving the narrative forward for us at all.
02:02
And so, this is for the risk takers.
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This is for the people who want to be risk takers,
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and are afraid to be risk takers.
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I hope it really emboldens them.
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