Viola Davis raconte comment son film l'a inspirée

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"En tant que femmes noires nous sommes dignes de présenter un film, de remplir des cinémas."  L'actrice Viola Davis nous raconte comment l'histoire du régiment féminin de son nouveau film "The Woman King" l'a inspirée.

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00:00As black women we are worthy of opening a movie, of being global, of people filling up theaters,

00:08that we literally can make money at the box office,

00:12we can be at the center of the narrative, and that we are profoundly beautiful.

00:30Some things are worth fighting for.

00:34The title in the movie alone is sort of a great metaphor for this point in my life,

00:39in my career. This film is about my agency and my autonomy as an artist and as a black woman,

00:47a dark-skinned black woman in Hollywood. Have I had some roles in the past that have been

00:52terrific roles? Yes, there have been terrific roles, but more often than not, I have not had

01:00autonomy. I have had so many roles where I've had to fill in the gap. I've had to do the work to

01:05humanize them. They were definitely characters on the periphery, not explored at all.

01:13This is a fully realized, the whole story is absolutely fully realized in terms of their

01:20humanity, in terms of what they did, in terms of it being an action historical drama, in terms

01:25of the fact that my production company with my husband, Julius Tenen, produced the film.

01:31We fought for it. The fight has been real. That's the difference. The difference is ownership.

01:37I want people to tap into their warrior spirit, because I'm telling you one thing that I've

01:42learned on the road, just as a human being, is that life is a fight. Life is a beautiful

01:48struggle. It's a fight. But if you are trying to achieve comfort, then we are not moving

01:56the narrative forward for us at all. And so this is for the risk takers. This is for the people

02:07who want to be risk takers and are afraid to be risk takers. I hope it really emboldens them.

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