Viola Davis Reveals a Director Called Her by His Maid’s Name

She probably has RACE! painted in giant red letters above her vanity.

How sexual is the role? Without sexuality Miss Davis does not participate

[quote]“If I wanted to play a mother whose family lives in a low income neighborhood and my son was a gang member who died in a drive by shooting, I could get that made,” Davis said. “If I played a woman who was looking to recreate herself by flying to Nice and sleeping with five men at the age of 56 — looking like me, I’m going to have a hard time pushing that one, even as Viola Davis.”

[quote] Davis once played a supporting role in the Julia Roberts starrer “Eat Pray Love,” but it sounds like making a version of that story with her in the lead role wouldn’t be of interest in Hollywood. The actor said the reason is that “people can’t reconcile the Blackness with the spiritual awakening and the sexuality. It’s too much for them.”

[quote]While speaking about being rejected for roles in the past, Davis said a lot of the times she was passed over because of her race or because Hollywood talent did not find her “pretty enough.” The latter reason “really gets on my damn nerves,” Davis said. “It breaks my heart and it makes me angry.”

[quote]“A lot of it is based in race. It really is,” Davis added of being rejected. “Let’s be honest. If I had my same features and I were five shades lighter, it would just be a little bit different. And if I had blonde hair, blue eyes and even a wide nose, it would be even a little bit different than what it is now. We could talk about colorism, we could talk about race. It pisses me off, and it has broken my heart — on a number of projects, which I won’t name

She then went home and ‘made’ the director a chocolate pie with the words ‘You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important’ scribbled across it.

Sanctimonious turd. Who wants to see her taking 5 lovers in France? That'd be a fuckin fantasy too, btw. No matter HOW fuckin sexual she demands to be. and her tv show she had a big hunk husband (Liam Neeson before too) and famine janssen as her female lover. No wants wants to FUCK you viola!!

I don't know where this woman ever assumed that men should find her sexually desirable. In her age bracket most old men wanna fuck Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts as far movie stars go. I've never met a man alive who would fuck Viola.

Was it Violet?

Viola? By ALL that is holy, STOP talking. Be a mystery.

[quote] While speaking about being rejected for roles in the past, Davis said a lot of the times she was passed over because of her race or because Hollywood talent did not find her “pretty enough.” A lot of it is based in race. It really is,” Davis added of being rejected. “Let’s be honest. If I had my same features and I were five shades lighter, it would just be a little bit different. And if I had blonde hair, blue eyes and even a wide nose, it would be even a little bit different than what it is now…

Look, Viola isn’t ugly, she can be made up to look really cute on talk shows and in magazines. And there she has a warmth and a sense of friendliness and sweetness.

That warmth is not present in her on screen performances. The earliest role I saw Viola Davis in is an episode of Law And Order: Criminal Intent. She was great. She played a steely eyed psycho. And she’s leaned into playing a steely eyed psycho in roles that don’t require. Look at her introductory scene in How To Get Away With Murder: it is ridiculous.

She doesn’t get those Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock parts because she is cold and aggressive on screen (which is why her Michelle Obama performance is a failure). That she is not a great cinematic beauty is a lesser issue. In her prime, she didn’t have the looks of Halle Berry or Angela Bassett or Alfre Woodard or Pam Grier or Kerry Washington or Diana Ross. Lupita Nyong’o and Jodie Turner-Smith have darker skin than her but they are staggeringly pretty. She doesn’t have the bone structure or edgy cool factor of Jada Pinkett or Gabrielle Union.

She has to work with what she has. Meryl Streep was beautiful and ethereal but she wasn’t pretty or sensual. Glenn wasn’t pretty or ethereal but she was sexual and emitted vulnerability along with her strength.

It’s okay to want to be America’s Sweetheart. [quote] While speaking about being rejected for roles in the past, Davis said a lot of the times she was passed over because of her race or because Hollywood talent did not find her “pretty enough.” A lot of it is based in race. It really is,” Davis added of being rejected. “Let’s be honest. If I had my same features and I were five shades lighter, it would just be a little bit different. And if I had blonde hair, blue eyes and even a wide nose, it would be even a little bit different than what it is now…

Look, Viola isn’t ugly, she can be made up to look really cute on talk shows and in magazines. And there she has a warmth and a sense of friendliness and sweetness.

That warmth is not present in her on screen performances. The earliest role I saw Viola Davis in is an episode of Law And Order: Criminal Intent. She was great. She played a steely eyed psycho. And she’s leaned into playing a steely eyed psycho in roles that don’t require. Look at her introductory scene in How To Get Away With Murder: it is ridiculous.

She doesn’t get those Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock parts because she is cold and aggressive on screen (which is why her Michelle Obama performance is a failure). That she is not a great cinematic beauty is a lesser issue. In her prime, she didn’t have the looks of Halle Berry or Angela Bassett or Alfre Woodard or Pam Grier or Kerry Washington or Diana Ross. Lupita Nyong’o and Jodie Turner-Smith have darker skin than her but they are staggeringly pretty. She doesn’t have the bone structure or edgy cool factor of Jada Pinkett or Gabrielle Union.

She has to work with what she has. Meryl Streep was beautiful and ethereal but she wasn’t pretty or sensual. Glenn wasn’t pretty or ethereal but she was sexual and emitted vulnerability along with her strength.

Maybe Viola doesn’t have the range to be America’s Sweetheart (which requires effort and skill- Julia Roberts is not like that in real life). She can be sexual and “womanly” but she needs to accept it will be in a different way to how she is wants it.

Julia Roberts was opening movies against Star Wars and Batman. Viola was never or could EVER be in that realm. What does this woman think she is?

Did Michelle pay him to do it?

She's not really cold or aggressive, she's intense, and romcoms do require a light and breezy attitude. That's why I don't really like Julia Roberts romcoms because she's not light or breezy. She was a little bit in Pretty Woman but lost that really quickly. Roberts had to be cast in romcoms that had an edge to them because otherwise they weren't believable.

I understand her bringing up Julia Roberts specifically because Julia cannot overcome her inherent brittle nasty side. People talk about how she was a real bitch in Runaway Bride or My Best Friend's Wedding and she was. Viola saw that and wondered how on earth that same woman got Eat Pray Love.

Viola could do really well in edgy dark comedies, dramas, and thrillers and have romances in all of them. Her only real problem right now is overexposure because of the interviews she's giving because of her book. She needs to dial it back because all anyone is publicizing are her complaints.

R9 cut that shit. Viola is not sexually desirable to most straight men. She thinks she is but she's not.

It's insane she thinks she's a Julia Roberts type. Hon Julia is what she is because grown men wanna fuck her and women want to be her. You don't have that. Move on

Yeah how does Viola explain Lupita and Jodie Turner-Smith who are darker but gorgeous?

Its crazy how she demands to be sexy

r15 exoticism (fetishism) and not really black. (seriously. she goes full ados when it comes to darker women)

Narcissistic Personality Disorder in action: I am wonderful, divine, glorious, amazing and perfect, and if people don't defer to me constantly and tell me how beautiful, important, intelligent, talented and fantastic I am ALL THE TIME, then I will throw a tantrum and try to publicly shame them into finding me fascinating. Thus come the constant accusations of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, fat-phobia, queer-phobia, etc.

The problem with Viola Davis is that, even though she is incredibly privileged by most people's standards, she isn't privileged enough as per her own delusional view that she has of herself. She isn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination and yet, she thinks that she possesses the same level of beauty as Halle Berry, Lupita Nyong'o, Vanessa Williams or Dorothy Dandridge, or the elegant features and personality of Angela Bassett and Diahann Carroll. She is a very good actress among many other good actresses, but she doesn't have Lena Horne's, Meryl Streep's or Anika Noni Rose's prestige (probably because she isn't as versatile and talented), and nobody defers to her as if she were a member of the Selassie imperial family. Of course, that is because the world is racist and constantly conspires against her because we're all envious of her greateness. The fact that there are many people who have to work hard for peanuts and will never enjoy her privileges, is irrelevant to her: it's all about her and her sense of entitlement and self-appointed victim status.

In short, she is the African-American Lena Dunham (with the difference that Viola is talented, of course): people have the obligation to find her beautiful, desirable, unique, amazing, fascinating and wonderful and if they don't, it's because of a million prejudices and social malaises for which they must be constantly shamed. Accepting your own limitations and working to get what you want is not an option; thing must fall into your lap or else, the world is to blame.

Insufferable idiot. Someone should tell her to grow up and be grateful for what she has achieved, which is A LOT more than what most will ever achieve in their lives, in spite of trying with all their might.

Because women relate to Julia Roberts being jealous of perfect blonde, Cameron Diaz in MBFW and to her being a commitment-phobe in Runaway Bride. They relate to her being a bored middle-aged woman who fucks a younger guy then runs away from all responsibility to find herself in EPL. Roberts is a star not because she’s her generation’s Sarah Bernhardt but because she is canny about the roles she takes on. They suit her.

Women relate to Viola Davis being a strong suffering mother in Doubt and a strong sufffering maid in The Help. They related to Angela Bassett running away to find herself and fucking a younger guy in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Women related to Michelle Obama. They don’t relate to Viola Davis baring her teeth like a minstrel and telling her (younger, hotter) husband Barack Obama he is a nigger and a coon.

Now, the Angela Bassett role Viola Davis is suited for is the smart professional woman who burnt her no-good, cheating-with-a-white-woman husband’s clothes in Waiting To Exhale.

R12 the fraus loved Julia Roberts that why they saw all her movies. Yes, Julia excelled at certain types of comedy but ultimately went to see HER. Nobody goes to a Viola movie. For about 10 years both men and women went to Julia Roberts movies because they adored her. No one will ever go yo a Viola movie.

She doesn't tell him he's the n-word r19, she says he's going to be regarded by racists as just an n-word. You can make your point without lying about the intent of the scene.

[quote]Narcissistic Personality Disorder

It's crazy (pun intended) that we can't go more than 20 posts without someone making up some kind of mental health diagnosis for Viola.

Um, I’m not lying about the intent of the scene. In fact I didn’t mention the intent of the scene.

The point is, she didn’t sell it.

Viola does not need to be comparing herself to Julia Roberts. Julia is the last full blown female movie star. Viola doesn't exist in that world.

You said she called him slurs r23. She said other people were going to regard him as those slurs, and that's not the same thing.

For whatever reason Viola sees herself equal to Meryl and Julia as though she's accomplished the same things these pioneers have. Fucking delusional.

Sigourney Weaver once said candidly. When Madonna or Julia Roberts walks into a room you are in the word gets to you very fast.

Hush, r25.

The scene was terrible and she was terrible in it.

[quote]The scene was terrible and she was terrible in it.

Obviously, but you aren't able to say so without misrepresenting her part in the scene. You've written two or three essays on this stupid thread already, and you STILL can't get your point across in any meaningful way.

Julia gets Eat Pray Loves roles because people like to watch her, Viola doesn't get that. You are not an actress people like to watch. Get over it. Honey as her BFF Brad Pitt has mentioned before "you do not wanna cross Julia". So she needs to shut the fuck up.

And yet, it’s doesn’t make her performance any less misrepresentative of Michelle’s appeal and the project of utter hubris on Viola’s part.

no one wants to hear movie stars whine. get the financing togther and make the movies you want to make. if it is a low budget indie then start from there. it has been done many times.

She’s exhausting.

The Eat Pray Love comments are especially egregious. That movie only got made because it was a blockbuster bestseller. And the only actress who could get it made was Julia Roberts.

Not to mention the fact that every time you open HBO Max of one of these new streaming apps, there’s a dozen new movies about black and brown trauma or some self-elevating, indulgent bullshit about the glory of black woman’s hair.

She feels entitled to half a billion dollar star vehicles.

PS The fact that headline uses “exclusive” to highlight a microaggression is why people are turning off to Hollywood in droves. The rest of us have real problems.

Viola doesn't get that Meryl (her usual target) or Julia get big movies and salaries because they could open movies which people went to see and made a lot of money.

Meryl wasn't commending huge salaries back in the 90s when she wasn't a box office star

Her angry black woman schtick is tired.

Call Me By The Name Of Your Maid Before I Eat Your Ribs

How did Vi know the name of the Director's maid?

[quote]Viola could do really well in edgy dark comedies

I don’t see it. You’ve got to have a sense of humor about yourself and your image as well as an ability to embrace the absurd to pull off black comedy, all three of which Viola lacks. She’s too in her own head, too obsessed with this imagined image of herself as a Serious Actress to pull off something like Death Becomes Her or work with people like Lanthimos or the Coens.

[quote] I've never met a man alive who would fuck Viola.

Did I specify "alive" motherfucker?

The story about being called by the maid's name sounds like total horseshit.

Viola is the only authentically black actress in Hollywood... everyone else is mixed or a foreigner,

She should be cast for every black woman role. she is the only black woman in America.

[quote]Viola could do really well in edgy dark comedies, dramas, and thrillers and have romances in all of them. Her only real problem right now is overexposure because of the interviews she's giving because of her book.

No, her problem is that the movies she's headlined haven't made any money. If they had, she might be able to get the kinds of films she wants made, as she'd have proven that people actually want to plunk down money to see her.

Someone could cast her in a remake!

"Stand over there, Lupita, erm, I mean Rosita, sorry, Viola. Those are my maids. I'm always confusing Latino people with Black people."

(Black maids stopped being a thing in about 1967).

Viiola is just an entitled whiny bitch who can't be happy with the success she has had and she has a clear need for constant validation. A couple of years ago, I was listening to a podcast where a comedy actress was on. I can't remember who the actress was and I feel like an asshole about not remembering who it was. Anyway, this actress is character actress and started off in the LA improv communities like UCB and Groundlings. She mentioned struggling and never booking anything for a long time. She said that once she got guest roles on TV shows and supporting roles in movies she developed gratitude for getting to those points in her life. That actress sounded quite humble and gracious. Viola is a person who has been high profile projects and still ain't happy with shit, yet a C or D list still has more gratitude compared to Viola.

OP is tired of talking about trans people - time for him to rant about black women.

I don’t really know who she is, but is not not considered attractive? She looks stunning for mid fifties in the photo.

Sure,Moesha Great way to continue the “even though I’m a rich successful woman, iz still bez da negro to dem” narrative. and yes I am not white so don’t start on me with “racist” shit. She’s part of the problem, always trying to create racist scenarios when they are not there.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things she's claiming turn out to be false. There's something really phony about this woman and I wouldn't be surprised at all if she has a major fall from grace.

The thing is, Tyler Perry would absolutely option some kind of Nicholas Sparks/Elizabeth Gilbert-meets-EL-James rip-off screenplay for Viola and and hire Taye Diggs, Eddie Cibrian, Joe Magnaniello, Rick Fox and Andy Garcia to fight over her body.

But would she do it? Or would she be offended that she is ghettoised into doing her erotic fantasy with the black cinema factory rather than with Nancy Meyers at Warner Bros?

Viola is revealing herself to be very much like Meghan Markle. Nothing is ever enough no matter how much privilege they have. And both have a huge amount of privilege. They're always playing the victims and, despite pretending to be feminists, they're constantly trying to cut down other women.

I wonder if her recent interviews where all she does is bitch and cry will be enough to turn off some directors, producers, and actors from wanting to work with her. She may be shooting herself in the foot with some of her recent interviews and her bitch fests about the critics who don't The First Lady.

As if How Stella got Her Groove Back was never made

I'd love to see Angela slap the shit out of Viola or at least call her out on her race-baiting woe is me shit.

But his maid's name WAS Viola!

For every black actress who can't get a project off the ground because she's black, there are multiple women of other skin tones, including white, who can't get projects off the ground for other reasons that shouldn't figure into the equation, either, but they do. Some women appear too masculine, just aren't considered pretty, have crooked teeth, have annoying speaking voices, appear too ethnic--what have you. Unfortunately, being black is just anòther reason. In fact, it may even be the only reason why an actress can't get a project she wants to execute off the ground. Whatever the reason, however, I think it's equally frustrating to someone like Viola or to an actress whose boobs just aren't big enough when she's faced with obstacles in the way of achieving a goal. Shitty & unfair, yea, but these minor factors are major factors when there's $$$ involved.

I like Viola, think she's a terrific in her craft. But I also think she's someone who gets more thrills from the noble soap boxes she poses upon promulgating than she might by actually being more proactive. Getting something accomplished means and end to a problem, which means no more bitching. I'm not so sure Viola Davis would have an identity without feeling like she's constantly battling the establishment. But that's true of too many people across too many spectrums these days.

R51 nails it.

She needs A LOT of therapy.

"I’m going to have a hard time pushing that one, even as Viola Davis."

Did she just refer to herself in the third person?

MASSIVE 🙄

She’s extremely unlikeable.

Viola needs to join Will Smith at that luxury ashram and detox/dry out. She’s giving off major boozer teas and somehow, has tied Hollywood success to mean she’ll (finally) be seen as attractive.

Nobody is checking for a fucking Viola Davis as a sex symbol nor is she an automatic box office draw. She lacks It and is trying to bully her way into that circle. She isn’t charming or witty and her constant whining is worrisome. Her team needs to intervene.

If she ever gets an honorary doctorate expect her to demand to be billed as Dr Viola Davis PhD in all credits from now on.

She played a maid, arguably her best role.

She’s exactly the same age as Diane Lane, Brooke Shields, Gong Li, Connie Nielsen and Elizabeth Hurley. I can imagine scores of men in Nice wanting to bang them, but the reality is as even Hollywood-gorgeous women would they’d struggle to be cast in that movie too. Under The Tuscan Sun was 19 years ago. Paris Can Wait was 6 years ago.

[quote]I don’t see it. You’ve got to have a sense of humor about yourself and your image as well as an ability to embrace the absurd to pull off black comedy, all three of which Viola lacks. She’s too in her own head, too obsessed with this imagined image of herself as a Serious Actress to pull off something like Death Becomes Her

Correct. Which is why she will be 'The Black Meryl Streep'.

I've never seen her in a comedy. Has she even ever done one? I suspect she has a narrow range: quite workable in heavy drama, but I can't imagine her ever having the self-awareness comedy requires.

"I had a director who did that to me. He said, ‘Louise!’ I knew him for 10 years and he called me Louise and I find out that it’s because his maid’s name is Louise,” Davis said. “I was maybe around 30 at the time, so it was a while ago. But what you have to realize is that those micro-aggressions happen all the time.”

I'm not following Viola's train of thought

No one except Viola calls Viola the Black Meryl Streep. Meryl has talent and fans.

Isn’t “maid” an old-fashioned and slightly derogatory term? Nowadays we say “housekeeper” or “house cleaner”. “Maid” refers to a woman, and not all cleaning people are female.

And how often would a director be ordering his “maid” around? Most people don’t encounter the people who clean their homes. They’re at work while the staff is doing their thing. Was this “maid” a personal assistant, perhaps? I’ve never heard a boss even mention their household help by name. Oh that’s a lie. I had a woman boss who spent a lot of time calling the nanny who cared for her daughter; name was Michelle and what a saint that poor woman was.

Love her!

R68 Seems pretty easy to follow

Viola at R71.

I used to like Viola, but this constant whining is not an attractive look. She's one of the most privileged women in the US, so it's telling that she has to reach back to a vague event nearly 30 years ago to decry racism today.

I believe her. But I also don’t think that she makes a good Michelle Obama.

Both opinions can coexist.

[quote] Nobody is checking for a fucking Viola Davis as a sex symbol nor is she an automatic box office draw. She lacks It and is trying to bully her way into that circle. She isn’t charming or witty and her constant whining is worrisome. Her team needs to intervene.

I agree, she's trying to bully her way into that circle. She sort of reminds me of Mindy Kaling and that story about Kaling paid for another actor's meal in attempt to get acknowledged by him. Kaling also openly bitched about being snubbed by the Emmys. Viola and Mindy are both grown women who can't accept that not everything can go their way. Viola grew up in poverty while Mindy Kaling grew up upper middle class with a doctor mother and architect father. In a way, Viola is easier to sympathize with because she rose up from poverty. But, Viola's bullying and lack of humility is a major turn off and she's bound to piss off the wrong people at some point.

[quote]The thing is, Tyler Perry would absolutely option some kind of Nicholas Sparks/Elizabeth Gilbert-meets-EL-James rip-off screenplay for Viola and and hire Taye Diggs, Eddie Cibrian, Joe Magnaniello, Rick Fox and Andy Garcia to fight over her body.

Tyler Perry films don't have the kinds of budgets that would pay Viola what she feels she's worth. She's at the point at which she could develop and shepherd films that would give her the roles she wants, but they would be tiny-budgeted independents and she wants to make studio money. (I don't blame her for that.)

I think she's a terrific actress, though her Michelle Obama shows that she certainly has her limitations. I just think there comes a point when you have to accept that certain things aren't going to happen for you, and it's not just because of racism (though that plays a part for many black actors).

Kurt Russell once said he would have liked to have had the career of Robert Redford, but that he was happy with what he did have. Viola is complaining from a position of immense privilege, and she may want to reflect on that.

Tiresome contrarians. Typical dataloungers.

I have never seen or have any interest seeing any films that she was in.

R55 As if Basset wasn't the huge race baiter, herself. And she only plays angry! Not even as good as Viola. Shit, Viola can give us all kinds of things except sexual!

r48 that is a good photo of her. Even if she was butt ugly if she was a box office draw they would cast her. The fact is she can't put butts in the seat.

She seems angry, arrogant and self-righteous, despite not being popular or well liked.

I’m sick of her micro-aggressions every time she needs attention.

Maybe it's something she saw one on TV. Could it be that this bit from Mad Men, when Betty's father confuse the Draper's maid Carla with his maid? Guess what the name of that other maid was...

This old bitch is exhausting.

She should have played Oprah instead of Michelle Obama

I love her and think she is stunning. How about holding the door open for upcoming black actors instead of her endless complaining. Only 2% of actors make a living acting. How can everything be so terrible if she is among those 2%?

[quote]How about holding the door open for upcoming black actors

That's the last thing she wants to do.

I get my colored help mixed up all the time! LaTralier Jenkins-Smith is my main girl in charge of the staff and LaWanda Jones-Perkins is in charge of the kitchen and laundry areas and reports up to La Trailer . With out my glasses on I cannot distinguish between the 2 !!!

and if some perky 23 year old blonde wanted to play the mother a 19 year old who get gunned down in a drug deal, she probably wouldn't have luck with that either.

[quote] Tyler Perry films don't have the kinds of budgets that would pay Viola what she feels she's worth. She's at the point at which she could develop and shepherd films that would give her the roles she wants, but they would be tiny-budgeted independents and she wants to make studio money. (I don't blame her for that.)

So she wants Nancy Meyers and WB, not Tyler Perry and Tyler Perry studios. It’s a bit late for that. If she were 46, or 36, it would be a different story. She looks good for her age. Why hasn’t she worked with Ryan Clogger and Marvel?

She needs to do what Jessica Chastain did. Go to Cannes every year even if you don’t have a film opening, attend to every party, schmooze with every journalist, drape yourself over every director and network like a MFer.

Don’t go to Cannes and complain.

*Coogler. Oops. Sorry Ry.

The same 2 people reply back and forth to themselves about Viola. Weird obsession.

Some people are bottomless pits and are never ever happy. Viola is one of them.

Learn to recognize them and stay away!

Speaking of Jessica Chastain, she is close friends with her The Help costar Octavia Spencer. She invited her to her wedding and is producing a project for them to costar. Not with Viola, though.

Poor Viola.

[quote]Why hasn’t she worked with Ryan Clogger and Marvel?

Because she's in the DC Universe as Amanda Waller, appearing in both Suicide Squad films and cameoing in the Peacemaker TV series. She may now star in a Waller series on HBOMax:

R97 In that pic, she looks like that gold fish looking bitch mayor from Chicago.

Aggrieved people are boring.

I always laugh watching this but I think this really happens in her life.

So much racism on this forum. SMH. The posts in this thread are just vile. Telling a black woman to “shut up”, saying that she and other black people are “too loud” or “angry”, etc. White people don’t even realize how racist they’re being.

Movie stars live in bubbles. Her net worth is 25 million dollars. In what way is she not incredibly privileged compared to almost everyone posting here? Boo hoo.

She’s unlikable, a braggart and a complainer. She is the only one who constantly brings up her race.

[quote]She needs to do what Jessica Chastain did. Go to Cannes every year even if you don’t have a film opening, attend to every party, schmooze with every journalist, drape yourself over every director and network like a MFer.

She doesn't think she should have to do any of that work. She feels like it's owed to her because she's black and deserves reparations.

She's more like the Black Debra Winger. A rancid cunt who directors eventually grew tired of working with, due to her miserable attitude and obnoxious behavior.

I'm so fucking tired of this overrated cunt. Go away, bitch. You're not that talented.

I love Debra Winger cause she went to my high school and worked at Magic Mountain with me, R106, but I love your comment!

Today at my son's little league game, I couldn't tell the difference between 2 Asian mothers, 2 Hispanic boys, 2 Black coaches, and sometimes I can't tell the blonde soccer moms apart. I must have one of those recognition disorders.

Viola is being foolish in this instance. Wear a name tag if it gets you so upset.

Viola's problem is not she's black. She's unattractive. And old.

MInd you I don't doubt she's experienced racism, but it's funny how people identify with extremely rich celebs who probably wouldn't even speak to them without a bodyguard. There's a great deal of classism in this country few people are even willing to recognize.

Alfre Woodard is so much more elegant and articulate and downright refined than Viola. I love her and think that she should give lessons on how it's done.

At this point I think that Viola is a bit of a fibber. She claimed that she went to school in ages old urine soaked clothes, rats ate the faces off her baby dolls, she barely ever had food to eat, had cockroaches as pets- no one noticed?! No one?! She came from a small town, right? No one just stopped by to help or maybe to beat the crap out of her parents and then call CPS?

She is claiming that a director she knew for some time called her by his maid's name. She learned of that after the fact but knew him for some time. How does that work?

The voice she has on such a large forum for bring to light issues of intolerance she is muting by being a bit of a fibber. That is ghastly and a travesty.

Please note that I am not trying to imply that she is fibbing with everything just that she is a bit of a fibber if I didn't know any better.

The perpetual "angry black woman".

Yes she's experienced racism in the film industry, but I don't care in the same way I don't care about the actresses who complain about making less than their male costars. Oh, poor you, making $3 million instead of $6 million! You're making millions of dollars playing pretend for a living. You're stratospherically lucky, experiencing a level of renown and comfort known to a very small number of people. Shut the fuck up and enjoy your success.

She's really trying to deflect from her shitty performance as Michelle Obama. She's gotta get that sympathy again.

I'm so tired of her whining. She was a PRODUCER on this First Lady show. She could have put her ego aside and graciously offered the role to another Black actress. But, no. Viola had to hog the spotlight and miscast herself as First Lady Michelle Obama.

She was also the lead on a hit TV series on ABC, which allowed her to shoot fewer episodes than other series - for her.

She's privileged but will never admit it.

[quote] So much racism on this forum. SMH. The posts in this thread are just vile. Telling a black woman to “shut up”, saying that she and other black people are “too loud” or “angry”, etc. White people don’t even realize how racist they’re being.

I think people in this forum are compensating for the times they have to remain silent in public when they don't agree with something that's being called racist or privileged or whatever. There's so much you can keep inside before you start to blow up and let's face it, for the last 20 years you can't say much without being called racist or a right wing asshole, or a Republican or even a White supremacist. All you have to do is scroll up this thread and look at some of the "woke" responses. Only the silencing attempts here don't work like they do in most colleges and people will speak their minds under the protection of anonymity.

Why is Viola Davis the new she devil on DL? What’s wrong with you guys? She a terrific actress- for my money much better that Roberts.

My friends and I have been laughing for weeks because Viola keeps the crazy coming. We noticed the downward spiral when she complained she’d been wearing wigs for years to be accepted. And, then…continued wearing wigs when she was given covers.

Then came the stories about growing up in a sharecropper’s shack, living Anna Mae Bullock’s life (except her “rag doll” had no face) and then TRIUMPH! She buys the shanty she grew up in. Okay, girl…all your life, you’ve had to fight and everyday is a struggle. We get it.

But, she kept going and people got into her ass over the Obama mouth and she got pissed. Now, it’s a director calling her by his domestic’s name. Over three decades ago. She’ll tell us about her Pap smear next and how the OB/GYN didn’t compliment her on her cooch.

Has she faced racism in her personal and professional life? Of course. However, she’s in a position now to cast more diverse actors and make other changes that would make Hollywood more inclusive but it’s only about her. She doesn’t want more women in Hollywood that look like her…she wants to be the sole token.

Auntie Viola’s problem is that she’s gone so Hollywood, she doesn’t realize how petulant and tone deaf she’s making herself out to be. There are White actresses that would give up their left implant (that they paid for on an installment plan that includes under the desk visits) for 1/10 the success that Viola has enjoyed. There a Black actresses that she could uplift and cast but she’s the self-proclaimed Black Meryl Streep (because she doesn’t even believe in her own stand-alone talent); if we don’t offer tribute, she whines.

She has to have a team that is worried about her rankings and ravings lately. This isn’t normal.

R118 I think at the very least her PR team has tried to address her whiny bitch attitude, but she probably dismisses them and thinks she's justified in keeping on with her constant bitch fests.

I could totally see Viola dressing down and wearing some kind of wig to play Lori Lightfoot in movie or TV show, but then she'd fuck up the role like did with Michelle Obama and would have meltdowns when the critics would slam her.

I looked up Viola's age. She was born in 1965 which means she probably came to LA in the late 80s/90s and had a difficult time and is still working through all that. No one in the late 80s/90s was going to hire someone who looks Viola for lead roles and it made her angry and a little bit bitter. Now that she has a level of success and fame, she's created a certain backstory for herself - probably true, but a little "heightened" for dramatic effect. Viola - savior of dark skinned black women who want to act. Let her have her thing.

[quote]Telling a black woman to “shut up”

That isn't racist. It's telling a person who just happens to be black by sheer circumstance to shit their pie hole. Telling a black chick to shut up is like telling a white dude to shut up or an asian chick to shut up or or a latin dude to shut up. Get off the pedestal.

It must have really annoyed her when much darker and more beautiful Lupita won an Oscar for her first film role before Viola got hers.

shut their pie hole*

[quote]It must have really annoyed her when much darker and more beautiful Lupita won an Oscar for her first film role before Viola got hers.

I imagine she might acted like this. Bitter at another actress getting accolades.

r101 they really nailed her with that impression

It’s Deborah Wilson as Oprah good!

You know, I thought the whole Gratitude movement was pointless bullshit. But it probably isn’t. If you’re not happy for your achievements, what else is there but anger and bitterness?

Whoopi Goldberg is a decade older than Viola and she didn’t carry on once her movie career ebbed on the late 90s. She shrugged and went into TV, hosting and fundraising. Whoopi said on The View that she had a good run as an A-Lister, especially for someone who looked like her (she described herself as quirky and cute in her 20s, and not Hollywood gorgeous). She said she had to diversify and that having worked as a cleaner and in all kinds of jobs she didn’t consider herself to be too good to do gameshows and daytime TV. Now she has FY money.

Perhaps Viola doesn’t consider Whoopi a forebear because Whoopi has a background in comedy and Viola is classically trained. Even though their dramatic film acting skills are comparable. And even though Whoopi’s comedy was sufficiently impressive as to get her noticed by Mike Nichols and Steven Spielberg, as well as a Tony.

And the crazy old bat is still popular with her peers and respected in the industry, multiple scandals and gaffes later, precisely because of her work ethic and positive attitude. I hope Viola will be able to say the same in a decade.

Also, r127, Whoopi is perhaps the better actress: she's been astonishingly good at both comedy and drama in the past, whereas I've yet to see Viola play comedy.

I wonder how Viola would do playing Whoopi in a biopic.

Huh. I've laughed at everything I've seen her in r128.

Whoopi has a sense of clarity that a lot of people lack about certain matters related to Hollywood and a career in entertainment. You would think someone, Viola's age, would have a similar clarity about what Hollywood is.

Viola doesn't have much warmth and I can't see her pulling a role like Delores in Sister Act the way Whoopi made it work.

Viola Davis is only happy bitching, whining and victimizing herself.

This is why everyone enjoys making fun of her. Didn't she get to go to Julliard?

When is she going to acknowledge her privilege?

I actually like Viola Davis but I have no idea why she would consider herself in the same level as Meryl Streep or Julia Roberts. That's where her mental issues begin. Those two women are outliers. You are not Viola. When you can accomplish what they did for women then you can bitch, and bitch and bitch some more.

Julia Roberts is a fucking hag who hasn't been relevant in 20 years and who's oscar win is largely considered a joke.

Meryl is an overrated bore who has long worn out her welcome, and despite her screen success, has a forgettable, almost nonexistent stage career.

Viola is a Tony, Emmy and Oscar winning actress who is the arguably the most important actress of the last ten years. Her career has given her plaudits in every major acting arena. She has helped redefine each of the mediums she has appeared in.

Okay Viola, R135.

I agree that Viola should stop calling herself the black Merrill.

She's more in the league of a Jessica Lange and Glenn Close who have succeeded in all the major arenas in acting and have been showered with all the major acting awards.

Merrill doesn't have a Tony.

[quote]Glenn Close who have succeeded in all the major arenas in acting and have been showered with all the major acting awards.

Should somebody tell her?

Glenn's oscar is where Meryl's Tony is.

Call Me By Your Maid's Name Before You Eat My Cum Peach

The drag queens on Pose were sexier than this insufferable cunt.

She's never been the lead in a hit movie so why is she acting all uppity?

Meanwhile the far more talented Alfre Woodard now has a TV series on BET+.

I was surprised that Whoopi was good in The Stand.

R135 then it's Viola who should keep other women's names out of her fucking mouth. She is neither an equal or peer of Streep or Roberts based on race. They are are all women yet only one is constantly wringing her hands about how unfair her life has been. She obviously has an issue with Meryl and Julia's successes. But neither give her a second's thought .

KEEP MY MOM’S NAME OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!

Does this woman think Eat Pray Love would get made with her? Who the fuck would pay for Viola to play that role? It was a stupid movie and book but the public went to go see their favorite actress in that role. It was a horrible film and project but it made money worldwide because the people liked the actress. No one has EVER liked Viola like that. She sounds like a jealous bitch.

Her bullshit is getting old. Next..

Oh give it a rest, Viola. That movie’s already been made with a *gasp* black woman in the lead - it’s called The Holiday, and it stars Queen Latifah. AND she’s full figured, an extra minority box even you can’t check! This woman is positively exhausting, just seeing her name makes me want to lie down.

Last Holiday*, not to be confused with the similarly titled (and similarly insipid) Cameron Diaz romcom.

I actually watch The Equalizer because I love Queen Latifah. Always have.

r148 Viola has been a bit more *ahem* full figured in more than a few roles

Don't tell her that. Because if you do not find Viola sexually desirable you are racist and an awful person all together.

And she’s a dyke r148! Ms viola must have been seething with envy.

Wasn’t Viola sexual in that movie that tried to make us believe Liam Neeson was fucking her?

[quote]She obviously has an issue with Meryl and Julia's successes. But neither give her a second's thought .

Sure bothered Meryl when they were competing for an oscar. Bothered her a lot.

Viola wasn't the one running to Weinstein for help.

As for Julia, no ones thought about her in ages. So that's worked out well for everyone.

R18 wins the thread

Queen latifah has always been real as fuck and never complained about all the opportunities she’s gotten.

I liked Whoopi until I heard it was her go to to compare herself to a slave whenever she’s in negotiations for more money. She did it to get more money for sister act 2 and she does it during negotiations at the view.

If you don't think Viola is hot and jerk off to her, you my dear are a racist.

This bitch actually believes her own hype. That's her problem. Not being grounded.

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What is her obsession with being sexy? Meryl, Julia and Sandra don't worry about it.

[quote] Speaking of Jessica Chastain, she is close friends with her The Help costar Octavia Spencer. She invited her to her wedding and is producing a project for them to costar. Not with Viola, though.

I don't think Jessica's character in The Help ever interacted with Viola's character. I can maybe see why Jessica and Octavia are friends. But, who knows maybe Viola was whiner on the set and turned people off. Also, Viola has publicly stated her regret about being in The Help. Bryce Dallas Howard also said a couple of years ago that if The Help had been made in 2020, she wouldn't have starred in it and she called it a white savior film. I have wondered if Jessica, Octavia, and Emma Stone felt like they were sort of thrown under the bus by Viola and Bryce's comments.

Did he also force her to do that stupid thing with her mouth when she played Michelle Obama?

Also, why would she want to star in a remake of Eat, Pray, Queef? The original with America's Sociopath Julia Roberts was bad enough as it is.

That's America's Sweetie to you bitch @ r163

She's just pissed off because she got terrible reviews as Michelle Obama so her lousy reviews and lousy performance are the fault of racism.

I love Last Holiday with Queen Latifah. Viola couldn't pull it off like Queen did because Queen is likable and fun. She brought a light touch to the movie that Viola, sorry, cannot do.

I love that Meryl, Julia and sandra have violated Viola somehow by being white and like by the public. What about her people???? What the fuck is wrong with you???

Worry about your people in Africa where slavery still exists. You were freed so go away.

TRANS-gression!

MICRO-aggression!

AGGRESSION!!

OP and the people who obsess over Viola are definitely racist.

Klansman at r168 needs to go back to the QAnon rally with Marjorie Taylor Greene

When you block the racist Republicans, a lot of this thread disappears

r135 is Viola.

[quote] She has helped redefine each of the mediums she has appeared in.

No, she hasn't LMAO

Either say the persons name or don’t bother telling the story.

Viola evidently believes her own publicity. Always an error for an actor.

R18, I read that. and then I read it again as if it were being performed by Addison DeWitt. Bravo.

I could just imagine how stressful it might be working with her. She seems to demand attention and adoration from everyone else lest you'd be called prejudiced.

R9 Encore! Encore!

“Look, Viola isn’t ugly, she can be made up to look really cute on talk shows and in magazines. And there she has a warmth and a sense of friendliness and sweetness.

That warmth is not present in her on screen performances. The earliest role I saw Viola Davis in is an episode of Law And Order: Criminal Intent. She was great. She played a steely eyed psycho. And she’s leaned into playing a steely eyed psycho in roles that don’t require. Look at her introductory scene in How To Get Away With Murder: it is ridiculous.

She doesn’t get those Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock parts because she is cold and aggressive on screen (which is why her Michelle Obama performance is a failure). That she is not a great cinematic beauty is a lesser issue. In her prime, she didn’t have the looks of Halle Berry or Angela Bassett or Alfre Woodard or Pam Grier or Kerry Washington or Diana Ross. Lupita Nyong’o and Jodie Turner-Smith have darker skin than her but they are staggeringly pretty. She doesn’t have the bone structure or edgy cool factor of Jada Pinkett or Gabrielle Union.”

Maybe I am heartless, IDK, but this sounds like she's making mountains out of ant hills. Maybe she "needed" some attention? What's the big deal? All my life my Dad has screwed my name. He'd combine my nickname with one of my brothers' names or with my Mama's name. ALL THE TIME. My own Dad. Viola Davis is a delicate doily, not a tortured actress. She's just "acting" like a victim b/c she's gotten used to all the interest in her over the past few weeks. If she keeps complaining/ acting like a victim of white men in her industry who dared to get her name wrong, those film makers are gonna pass over her for roles.

Girl, you ARE an actress.

I wonder if she's jealous of Octavia, who won the Oscar first and seems to be beloved in the industry and by audiences, too - I have a hard time imagining Viola doing something as wickedly absurd as Ma.

Octavia in Ma will only become more iconic as time goes on.

I agree with someone upthread. WHEN will Viola acknowledge her privilege???!!!

People just can’t stand Viola. She brought it on herself. I wouldn’t be surprised if her career is now over.

What's her obsession with being seen as sexually desirable? Low self esteem?

If she wants to be paired in an onscreen sexual relationship with George Clooney or Tom Cruise or Antonio Banderas or Richard Gere by a major studio and be paid accordingly, she needs to produce an indie version of that film herself and hope audiences and critics like it before a media conglomerate will shell out the big bucks and the VIP treatment for her.

She should be taking meetings with Euro-kinksters like Paul Verhoeven, not whining at press conferences. She needs to be partying with Almodovar, not scolding her potential employers for not appreciating her sexual and spiritual journey.

R184 I'm guessing low self esteem or possible envy towards other actresses in her age group who still seen as sex symbols. It's funny how Viola is so desperate to be seen as sexually desirable when other actresses who aren't extremely good looking or even odd looking accept their careers for what they are. Judy Greer is the type of actress who knows that's she's odd looking and not sexually desirable, but has clearly embraced being a character actress. Viola is just someone who despite having won awards and been in major productions still isn't fucking happy. She has some whiny attitude that Constance Wu has.

^^^ I meant to type "same whiny attitude"

MISS Davis is insufferable!

Any reasonable point this woman might attempt to make is easily overshadowed by her galling ego.

The woman is madly in love with the sound of her own voice.

Her book is already falling down the best seller list.

[quote]Her book is already falling down the best seller list.

Which is why she's trying so hard to generate new interest.

I think some people especially women turn to a lot of celebrity memoirs as inspiration. But, when you have someone like Viola who is now wealthy bitching over various things that many women can't relate to, then I could see why some people would stop buying a celeb's memoir.

Yea Viola, put your millions where your mouth is and produce some great little books or scripts like many other older actresses do.

R193 lol. I have to say that while I'm not a huge Reese Witherspoon fan. I have respect for her because she doesn't cast herself in projects she produces. Witherspoon also seems less insufferable than Viola.

R194 I agree, she doesn't always put herself it these.

Now we're just trolling.

[quote]I have to say that while I'm not a huge Reese Witherspoon fan. I have respect for her because she doesn't cast herself in projects she produces

She's put herself in every project she's done.

[quote]Witherspoon also seems less insufferable than Viola.

Please. Witherspoon is a the definition of a grade A cunt.

You're a liar, R196. Reese produced Gone Girl and didn't cast herself. The director said she was wrong for the part and she accepted that and gave the role to Rosamund Pike who got an Oscar nomination for it.

You know, she narrated the audiobook of her memoir which means she’ll likely be up for a Grammy next year.

Imagine if her EGOT is denied by Selma Blair or Molly Shannon.

R197 said it, Reese was dying to play that plum role but accepted Fincher's word and let it go to Pike. I actually think she would have been great in it

Getting a Grammy for spoken word should not count towards EGOT status. Genuine EGOTs should be people like Liza, Glennie, Diana, Angela Lansbury, etc who have conquered music (or musical theatre), film and TV. Not read an audio book.

If Viola got an EGOT she still wouldn't be satisfied.

R196 Witherspoon was a producer on Lucy in the Sky and that Apple TV plus show Truth Be Told. She didn't have onscreen roles in those projects.

[quote][R197] said it, Reese was dying to play that plum role but accepted Fincher's word and let it go to Pike. I actually think she would have been great in it

I think she would been better as Amy because of how the twist was revealed and how certain things that turned out not to be true. The problem is that Rosamund Pike is too creepy and weird.

Wasn't traveling to fuck what How Stella Got Her Groove Back about?

As usual with Miss Davis, Angela Bassett already proved it's doable.

Reese Witherdspoon and her elfin features are the very definition of frau bait crapola.

You know, both Reese and Viola can be cunts. There can be more than one cunt. No need to fight.

"Hey, Beulah, we'd like to invite you to the set."

People like to watch Julia Roberts?

Who are these people? I have never met them at all.

Going to see a film which happens to have her in it is not the same thing. She's been nearly as unavoidable over the years as Tom Cruise.

I like Viola as an actress. I will say this--she needs to shut up and focus on the work. And not do bullshit like "Runaway Bride". Why anyone would be complaining about a totally bygone world of romcom stardom is beyond me. She could have a meaningful career. Just DON'T do what those basic white bitches did. They are boring as hell on screen, and Viola Davis is not.

R208 if Viola was offered romcoms, horror and sci-fi she'd then complain she wasn't taken seriously as an actress and given quality dramas.

[quote]Getting a Grammy for spoken word should not count towards EGOT status.

If "A Strange Loop" wins Best Musical, then Jennifer Hudson will have completed her EGOT—even though the Tony will have come for merely writing a check.

Viola can do horror, and anyone that can genuinely act can do sci fi. It's a broad category. She can even do sci fi horror.

I still think Oprah should have been Amanda Waller.

Has Viola ever got her tits out on film?

[quote] Speaking to Vanity Fair she compared her career - and those of other "unknown, faceless" black actresses who represent earlier versions of herself - to "fabulous white actresses" like Emma Stone, Reese Witherspoon and Kristen Stewart who've had "a wonderful role for each stage of their lives, that brought them to the stage they are now. We can't say that for many actors of colour"

In Vanity Fair, she compared herself - someone who got screen roles in her 30s - to Stone, Witherspoon and Stewart, who started acting in their teens, and were recognised as more interesting than their peers and future stars even then. You can’t say that of many actors of colour, true, but you can’t say that for many actors full stop.

She’s getting ridiculous. Viola had a traumatic childhood. I can’t imagine how revolting it was for her to be raped by her brother and going to school stinking of piss because her parents didn’t teach her to bathe. But it’s put a chip on her shoulder that is blocking her eyesight. She’s so successful she can’t enjoy it because she didn’t have the early career of Julia Roberts or Kristen Stewart, because people don’t see her as a sexual being, because they don’t pay her enough.

She needs therapy. A lot of it.

Viola's 56. Tell me which white 56 year old actresses are being cast in sexy roles?

[R170] go eat Viola's rancid cooch, you perpetually offended woke bastard!

Why is it such a “betrayal” now having starred in THE HELP (which gave Viola a coveted lead actress nomination, mind you)? The film pretty accurately portrayed the struggles of the AA characters at the time with a lot of dignity. And it was based on a very popular novel of the time and was *always* going to have a film adaptation. Every book club in the early 2010s read that book, even my all-gay one.

I think it’s denigrating to people like Octavia who won a well-deserved Oscar for the same film and launched the second chapter of her career. Go shit on one of your other failures, Viola (such as WIDOWS - where’s her hate for that mountain of shit?) It also includes (I believe) the most number of Oscar-winning actresses (Davis, Spencer, Janney, Stone, Steenbergen, Chastain, Spacek, etc.) so there’s some kind of record there.

If she's denigrating her role in The Help, she's denigrating all the thousands of black women who had to work as maids to survive.

She's just trying to sell her book and change the subject from her lousy reviews for playing Michelle Obama.

Jennifer Lopez and other non-black actresses are much worse than Viola but don’t receive the same level of hate. This is life as a black woman.

I think that’s a little reductive, R219. Most of the comments here are responding directly to what Viola has been putting out there in the press of late. Lots of grudges, negativity, and flip-flopping (you can believe she just LOVED critics when they were praising her).

Where is the hate for Alfre Woodard if this was just about people specifically targeting Viola because of the color of her skin? Oh, that’s right. It doesn’t exist. Because Alfre doesn’t act like a cunt.

Or Angela Basset ,Regina King,Pam Grier,Quenn Latifah etc,etc,etc.

Alfre Woodard is underrated and should have had a bigger career.

Alfre Woodard was robbed of nominations for Passion Fish and Clemency. She was also very effective in an interesting role in 12 Years a Slave.

I didn’t know that she had been raped! That’s awful.

R223 I really liked Clemency. I did wonder why didn't become an Oscar contender at least for Woodard.

How dare he! As if she could ever be believable as a maid!!

This is why dark skinned blacks never got jobs inside the masters house. Too much trouble.

R101 that video is gold. I can’t believe I have never seen it before!

[quote]My name is Viola Davis! “V” - as in the many Victories that I have accomplished All. On. My. Own. “I” - as in Integrity which at the end of the day is All. We. Have. “O” in the many Oceans of pain and tempests of sorrow that we must navigate In. Order. To. Get. Through…

So because of this thread I listened to her podcast with Brené Brown on Spotify. She wrote her memoir during lockdown because she realised in spite of her Tony and her Oscar and her daughter and husband (who she really seems to adore) she was still empty and unhappy. She’s also lonely - she said she doesn’t have deep friendship (what the Fraus call a Tribe). It goes back to her being bullied a child for being dark and ugly and not being told she is beautiful. She’s been in therapy since her Juilliard days. And she’s aware she ought to be grateful for her very successful career. But she’s fed up of walking into a room and putting on a brave face and pretending she’s not suffering.

I think that’s why she wants to make this middle-aged fuckfest movie. That if her spiritual/sexual/romantic fantasy is filmed, that if she is considered not just talented and fierce but as sensual and desirable by the cinema-going world, the demons of that damaged little girl will be exorcised and she’ll finally be happy.

[QUOTE]... and not being told she is beautiful

She really ought to be over that by now.

[quote] But she’s fed up of walking into a room and putting on a brave face and [bold]pretending she’s not suffering.[/bold]

Now when did she ever do that?

[QUOTE] I think that’s why she wants to make this middle-aged fuckfest movie. That if her spiritual/sexual/romantic fantasy is filmed, that if she is considered not just talented and fierce but as sensual and desirable by the cinema-going world, the demons of that damaged little girl will be exorcised and she’ll finally be happy.

Why does she have to drag the public into this? Work it out in therapy, bitch.

I have a hard time feeling bad for a multi-millionaire who has two Tonys and an Oscar at home.

Viola has the Emmy. She has the Tony. She has the Oscaaaaar! Tell her she is sexy!! Tell her she is beautiful!! Tell her she is desirable!!!!

Dark skinned blacks are not allowed in the house.

Tell that to my US Vogue cover.

"Drink, Whine, Envy" - Miss Viola will finally get her big middle age sex role where she finds herself by fucking young hot cock in Barcelona and in the final scene finally at long last being called "beautiful".

No one ever called you beautiful? Get over it!

Poor Alfre doesn’t have a suffering story to milk like viola does. She grew up middle class in Tulsa and went to a private high school. She was one of the few black students there but was very popular.

She's rich. She can make any movie she wants but she has to pay for it. She won't because she knows no one wants to see her nose snot run down some poor young actors neck

^kinda Hot!

[quote]Viola Davis Reveals a Director Called Her by His Maid’s Name

In a terrible coincidence, the maid's name also was Viola, but Davis insisted that he insulted her with the maid's name because "he didn't use the appropriate respect when saying it to me."

[quote] She wrote her memoir during lockdown because she realised in spite of her Tony and her Oscar and her daughter and husband (who she really seems to adore) she was still empty and unhappy.

The poor dear!

A violin for a Viola.

Viola needs to change her name to MARY!!!!

I would have thought "Mammy" was a term of endearment and should be taken as a compliment.

[quote] "Drink, Whine, Envy" - Miss Viola will finally get her big middle age sex role where she finds herself by fucking young hot cock in Barcelona and in the final scene finally at long last being called "beautiful

“Oh, thank you, ma. A young Bacall”.

She should do an American remake of that Isabelle Huppert film "Elle" where she just keeps getting raped all the time.

Well, they all look alike, you know.l

Isabelle Huppert in old age (though she doesn't look it) is now considered a sex symbol. When she was young she only played dowdy, plain characters who got abused. See La Dentelliere. There's hope yet for Viola!

Holy Jesus that black queef don't have it easy.

Viola should have gone Supporting in "The Help", she didn't have much more screen time than Octavia, who was a wonderfully deserving winner.

Viola Davis Reveals Black Actors Said She Wasn’t Pretty Enough for ‘How to Get Away With Murder’

R252 neither she was for that sexy role, but she did a great job with it.

[quote] Viola should have gone Supporting in "The Help"

Wild guess: her ego wouldn't let her.

R254 but she had much more power 5 years later when she slunk to Supporting for Fences. She could have won in LEAD over Emma Stone there.

I don't know if she would've beat Stone had she gone lead that year. La La Land got a lot more attention than Fences.

I think she found this thread.

La La Land was in the midst of the blacklash. It lost Beat Picture, after all. I think Viola had an excellent chance of beating Emma Stone if she didn’t commit category fraud for Fences.

[QUOTE] I think she found this thread.

Lupita “liked” the post.

The crap she posted on Instagram just gives off a whiny vibe. I think a lot of has to do with critics and TV viewers dislking her portrayal of Michelle Obama. She fucking sucked in the role and just couldn't keep quiet and move on.

She never should have accepted the role. She needed to be told after the first few scenes that her performance sucked.

R261 She was a producer on the show. Nobody was going to tell her shit. I wouldn't be surprised if people are always walking on eggshells on sets where she's at.

Call Me By Your Maid

The maid's name?

Viola

She ain't no viola - she's a whole big damned bass fiddle.

Just wondering, but why does Viola think that she should have star vehicles created for her that are romantic comedies or "sexy" films? I find her comments odd, because she has not shown any box office appeal. Yes, she is talented and has the stature of a rewarded actress, but why does she have a belief that she is a big star or is somehow is entitled to be a big star? It's show business, which is purely profit oriented. Star have to bankable to be cast in things, especially something like a romantic comedy, otherwise the studio loses money. Am I missing something here? I literally do not understand her gripes because her range is very limited.

Why doesn’t she grease herself up again and do a Ma Rainey sequel?

This will be Billie Eilish’s next outrage.

Her whole identity revolves around her past trauma. She really does need therapy.

[quote] Just wondering, but why does Viola think that she should have star vehicles created for her that are romantic comedies or "sexy" films?

Because she her loving husband and daughter and winning the Triple Crown of Acting hasn’t brought her the happiness she seeks, she has decided that money and sexual adulation in her working life will make up for the lack of money and lack of people telling her she was pretty in her early life.

It’s a teenage mentality. And it won’t help.

I think we need to put Viola in a time capsule and have her get a good reality check by people like, .....say, ......Diana Sands, Ruby Dee, Lorraine Hansbury..... I mean can you imagine??

,,,, and that's just the early 60s!

She's still pissed because she wanted to play Florence instead of me in the "Jeffersons" reboot.

Viola saying talking about people not dealing with the sexuality and the spirituality of a dark skinned black woman sounds like a dig at lighter skinned, conventionally attractive black women like Angela, Alfre, Halle, and even Sanaa Lathan, Taraji P Henson and Nia Long.

If I could have been...I would have been... And that's show business!

[quote]She needs to do what Jessica Chastain did. Go to Cannes every year even if you don’t have a film opening, attend to every party, schmooze with every journalist, drape yourself over every director and network like a MFer.

You forgot to mention doing the casting couch with directors and producers like Megan Ellison and Harvey Weinstein.

I can identify so much with Viola.

Viola, I'm asking you if you're okay.

All the racists comments in this thread just confirm what she said. Y'all are pathetic as fuck.

Niggers only good for the fucking and the plucking

Viola is only good for one of these.

This. Never. Happened.

[quote]You know, she narrated the audiobook of her memoir which means she’ll likely be up for a Grammy next year.

[quote] Imagine if her EGOT is denied by Selma Blair or Molly Shannon.

I read Molly Shannon's book recently and really enjoyed it. Molly's life story is quite inspiring given the tragedy she endured in childhood of her mother and sister dying in a car accident that caused by her father driving drunk and how she rose up in comedy. While Molly isn't an A lister, she has still remained humble and down to earth. I would have rather take someone like Molly Shannon over Viola Davis any day now.

I would love it somehow if Shannon or Selma Blair got a Grammy for the Spoken Word Album over Viola. Are there any other major contenders that could beat Viola in that category?

I.demand. to.be.fucked.

[bold]It is the nature of the poor viola to complain that others are responsible for her not being a violin.[/bold]

Too convenient she knows his maids name. She’s a race baiter who is guilty for her success as a black woman so she has to jump on the racism and me too band wagons to offset her wealth. Her face screams difficult to work with and dirty hairy bush.

I'm still not buying the maid's name story. But, even if it did it happen, couldn't have it just been a harmless mistake? Sometimes people from one aspect of life will remind you of people from other aspects of life and it's not due to cruelty or racism. Sometimes people make small blunders.

[quote]But, even if it did it happen, couldn't have it just been a harmless mistake? Sometimes people from one aspect of life will remind you of people from other aspects of life and it's not due to cruelty or racism.

Basically, no, and I’ve made fun of Viola’s self appointed sex goddess status plenty. It’s one thing to think Person X looks like Person Y and keep it to yourself. It’s not harmless to announce to a black woman she reminds you of/call her by the name of your maid Aunt Jemima because they look so similar, especially in a work environment where you may potentially employ her. It’s incredibly fucking rude and snide for reasons that are obvious to anyone who isn’t autistic.

Pull the stick out of your ass R286. He may very well have been thinking of his maid when he spoke to her,maybe to tell her to put more starch in his shirts. Not because she was black,but because he was talki8ng to Viola,who I guarantee is a crashing bore to speak to. Youve never accidentally called someone by their wrong name ?

It’s so easy to go through life not calling a black woman the name of my maid. Not calling an Indian man Ghandi. Not calling a banker with a big nose Hymie. Not calling someone with Achondroplasia Tyrion.

There have been lots of actors and actresses, who were plain looking or not attractive as the big name stars, who spent their whole career in supporting roles.

This is true of both men and women.

So why is VD's situation so much worse than those others? Why must the cause of her perceived situation be due to race?

The history of Hollywood is filled with actors whose looks determined the level of their success or failure.

VD has some kind of bizarre entitlement complex regarding "sexy roles". She got her wish as she will be starring in a movie adaptation of a Terry McMillian book. If that movie flops like some movie adaptations do, Viola will pull the whining antics like she did in response to criticism of her Michelle Obama portrayal.

There was a horror movie podcast I listened to several years ago called Horny 4 Horror which was hosted by three comedians. One of them was Betsy Sodaro who is quite odd looking. She made some comment in an episode that a lot of the roles she auditions are for "hag looking" women. Sodaro laughed about of it, of course. You got the sense that she accepts that certain roles are niche for her. Sodaro's friend circle in the entertainment industry consists of people like Lauren Lapkus, D'Arcy Carden, Mary Holland, and several other comedians who are odd or plain looking and do a lot of supporting roles. I have noticed from interviews with those actresses that they also know comedy supporting roles are for them and they don't try to force or bully others into giving them roles they aren't suited for. Sodaro could easily be whining about having to audition for "hag looking" women roles to magazines and crying about how she's not getting chance for certain roles. She just stays quiet and laughs things off.

🎶I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful

I'm beautiful, it's true

I saw my face, in a crowded place

And I don't know what to do

'Cause I'll never be with ME 🎶

Viola needs to take her face for a shite

Not reading the whole thread but without knowing what the maid looks like I can’t call it racist. I mean if the maid looks a lot like her is is understandable.

R293 I agree. Viola should try track down the maid as "receipts".

Viola on why she didn't wear a wig to the Oscars (when she lost to me.) She wanted to step on herself.

The fact that Viola declared herself the "black Meryl" should have marked the end of her career—not because she's a bad actress (better or worse than Meryl, it doesn't even matter), but because it's in bad taste, and proves that she is a tacky, unprofessional, ego-driven cunt. Nobody cares which white actress she thinks she's the black equivalent to except for Viola.

Aside from being some supreme thespian like Meryl Streep she thinks she is every bit the movie star that Julia Roberts is.

Viola's success made her suffer (too)

She’s worried about how wigs made it seem she was ashamed of being a “dark-skinned woman with curly hair” but not worried about that dusty-looking dye job.

Okay, sis.

Meryl and Julia Roberts are white but that has nothing to do with Viola's painful grievances. I still don't get why she thinks she is in that caliber of actresses. Is she that delusional?

"(Black maids stopped being a thing in about 1967)."

Not all racists are as up to date as you, dear.

Has anyone watched her Oprah special on Netflix?

“Hazel” or “Florida?”

Aren't all maids called Rosario?

R303 Being compared to Shirley Booth or Esther Rolle is no insult. Booth had the triple crown of acting. Rolle was also an Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress.

Was the maid's name...Viola?

Call Me By Your Maid’s Name

Why are the Oscars so traumatic for Viola? Maybe she should officially withdraw her name from competition if it’s all such a psychological burden for her.

Viola isn't Meryl Streep - the only "actress" she is better than is Phylicia Rashad....barely. But Viola wins in the pretentious department over even PR.

Viola, even when nominated for an Oscar doesn't feel like she gets the same treatment that when a Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock is nominated.

Call her by my name.

Viola has twice won SAG and then failed to parlay that win into an Oscar. I think that is a record. Poor Viola.

Viola is a Christian. Yet one of the central tenets of Christianity is that earthly things like possessions and money and acclaim and attention and flattery will not make us happy.

She needs a Come To Jesus moment.

R310 I honestly don't think its race based. But those two are America's princesses. Of curse they are gonna be treated supremely special. Why would Violas care?

His maid is named Biola.

When did Viola headline a movie in July or at Christmas and open with 20-30 million profits? She doesn't need to be comparing herself to other stars when she's not even really a star.

What's astounding is that after all this time as a well-known person in films, stage and tv, Viola still has developed no sense of awareness that she is a total downer. She's a chronic whiner and really almost wholly without humor or perspective.

It is astounding to me she has not figured out how to just "play the game" a little by now, or choose to just STFU every so often!

[quote]Call Me By Your Maid’s Name

And I'll call you by mine.

She would have been great in "Mamma Mia!"

Does Viola really think she's the black version of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts combined?

Was the director’s maid named “Black Cunt” or “Basic Bitch”?

^DEDDDDD

R321

The maid's name was "Winnie", but Viola heard "Whiney" and got offended.

Deeply offended!

Where and when did Viola actually refer to herself as the black Meryl Streep?

r325 here

When exactly did American Movie goers ever attend a Viola Davis film? Oh but they might be racist for not. Is she fucking serious?

I wouldn't be surprised if she hits a career slump. Her constant combitching is bound to backfire on her at some point.

Viola always forgets that she did not become well known until her 40's. And just because she had a hit TV show in her 40's does not necessarily translate to later success as a film star.

Streep was in Kramer v. Kramer and then a ton of other big movies. Sigourney was also a big star thanks to the Alien movies. Viola's comparisons to them make no sense. She is outraged because she feels she SHOULD be seen as their equal, because she went to a fancy school, has the Tony, blah, blah, blah. But she hasn't led a film to success at the box office, so her gripes are tiresome. She has a movie coming out in the fall, and it fails, I am sure it will be someone else' fault.

Interesting that she disses The Help today, but it remains her biggest hit in a lead role, grossing $169 million in the US and $213 million worldwide. None of her other lead role films come close -- if you count Fences as a lead role, it's second at $57 million US.

Viola's really having a pretty shitty life.

Poor Viola.

R326 holy crap that was painful to watch

When I was a kid, my mother, when distracted, would sometimes call me by our maid's name. I never took it personally because my mother also called me by my sibling's names now and then. As the youngest in the household, I just appreciated being noticed at all.

The maids name was Viola!

My dad, when yelling for me or my brother, would shout: "Joe! Richard! Mike!"

There is no Mike in our family.

[quote] There is no Mike in our family.

Actually there was, but you blocked out what happened to him...

My grandmother routinely ran through the list of granchildren before she hit the jackpot. These days, she wouldn't even have to sort the boys and girls if she didn't want to.

[quote]When did Viola headline a movie in July or at Christmas and open with 20-30 million profits? She doesn't need to be comparing herself to other stars when she's not even really a star.

I crack up at this because she is so desperate to be big box office headliner, but she just can't get that she's not in that category. She had supporting role in Suicide Squad which did well at the box office, but I doubt she was even appeased by that because she wasn't the lead. I wonder if she even truly liked by her Suicide Squad castmates other than Will Smith.

Will who?

R269 Fuck off with your therapy. It has never done anything or helped anyone.

My maid's name is 'Viola. '

Sigh.

This looks like her next Oscar bait attempt. I hope Ben Affleck doesn't put up with her antics.

Who's going to play Pre? That's how Nike really started - with Bill Bowerman and his wonder boy Pre. Bowerman designing the shoes and Pre wearing them.

Are they going to do a revisionist Nike history now?

r343, that story wouldn't center a minority, so it's a no-go in Hollywood today.

[quote]Queen latifah has always been real as fuck and never complained about all the opportunities she’s gotten.

Queen Latifah is someone who I hope gets an Oscar someday. She was terrific in Chicago, but I had the feeling she wasn't going to win.

I was going to write an actual response to the previous post, but autocorrect changed the stage name of Dana Owens to both Queen Latinas and Queen Latvians, and I didn’t want to risk cursing her with a DataLounge nickname.

Can I shit in her wig?

Would someone please give Angela Bassett back her career? Stop casting Viola. Stop listening to Viola. Stop responding to Viola. Replace Viola with Angela!

When black Karens attack.

Cancel her ass. Gen ZZZ's are good for something.

I love Viola and think she is a better actress than both Streep and Roberts but she doesn’t yet have either one of their stature. The Julia Roberts juggernaut was unique, I can’t think of any other actress equaling it.

R351 Viola doesn't have the range of Streep.

Is the no thread on the trailer for her new movie The Woman King? She's half naked in it

R348 Angela Bassett doesn't appear to have the ego Viola has.

R352 I saw the trailer for The Woman King a couple of days ago and it would be hilarious if it ends up being a flop.

I am sure if The Woman King flops, Viola will have an even heavier chip on her sexy old shoulder.

Viola's only Oscar worthy is playing Professional Victim: Angry Black Woman.

She should get both Oscar and Razzie.

Angela has a nice gig on 911 and aint got time for all that blame game,racism shit. I adore Angela Basset,always have.

"Oh, Beulah!... Er, I mean, Calpurnia!... no, scratch that, I mean, Berenice!... uh, [italic]Viola![/italic]"

She has every right to speak her mind, but she should choose her battles. She'll be labeled as "difficult", and will lose prime projects. That's the sad reality.

r348 Yes, bring Ms. Bassett back to scifi films.

Viola has never had the chance to do nudity

That's sweet of you all to think of me, but I'm actually busy right now filming stuff people will actually watch.

Meg Ryan, r351. Only Meg couldn't sustain it and it was taken over by Bullock.

r358 That's a biz all on its own... just look at who her friends are, who she chooses to diss and who she chooses to put her name on the line to defend. Samuel J has that problem, too, but he has versatility as an actor. .. people overlook his kooky (even by black standards) politics. They seem to be somewhere between ados and NOI but too socially liberal for either.