Why do you all hate Viola Davis so much?

Who hates her?

She's a phony who only cares about making bank and appeasing white people.

And she's overrated.

It's because she's so beautiful.

I don't hate her and don't understand why there seem to be a dozen daily threads about her. It started so suddenly.

She's exhausting, she's humorless and she's a lot more limited as an actress than people acknowledge.

Her performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is what made me really turn on her. She was awful in that movie.

She's a good actress. But, she's arrogant as fuck.

Couldn't you just ask this question in one of the many threads about her and that movie?

I am a huge fan; she’s a great actress. Her scene in Doubt is unforgettable, and she’s brilliant in Ma Rainey, Widows, Fences, Solaris, etc. I haven’t seen Woman King yet but will try to this week.

She’s entitled. She thinks she’s all that. There are a lot of better black actresses. I’ll take Alfre Woodard and Angela Basset over this race baiting bitch any day

I don't, but I hate "you all."

All you need is "you."

Viola is a whinging, self-important charity case who expects the world to worship ground the walks on. She deserves to be loathed.

Yeah she's way too uppity /s

That interview complaining about how she's the black Meryl Streep but not paid enough turned me off to her.

Someone link it.

The black Meryl is wealthy, famous, and has earned all of the accolades that actors dream of, but few ever receive. And still, she remains a bitter cunt with a chip on her shoulder who seems to think none of this is good enough. She is a nasty bitch.

She suffers from Kathleen Battle Disease.

She's a supporting actress trying to be a superstar.

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

We don't hate her, OP.

We just don't fall to our knees in worship and adoration just because she's breathing.

Because she's black, duh. Are you new to DL?

I don't hate her but it seems like she's everywhere all the time.

R4 To be fair, it was an awful movie.

It is because she got away with murder, op.

Cate is a lock for Tar. Move on.

[quote] Jealousy is such an ugly thing.

As is Viola Davis.

Uppity, chip on her shoulder, entitled. So many in this thread are just itching to say call her the n-word, but too cowardly to say it.

To be fair, Datalounge often hate actresses who achieved so much but still complain as if they’re downtrodden. So I think it’s a combination of good ole fashion DL-style racism and former fans who’ve grown tired of hearing her whine about how hard she has it in Hollywood compared to her white peers.

R24 yes, because "uppity", "chip on her shoulder", and "entitled" are all synonymous with the "n-word".

Because with all her whining and posturing, she really isn't that great an actress. We're constantly told how amazing she is but then she goes and does something like the First Lady mini-series, and she isn't simply bad, she is absolutely awful. A great actor would know when they are wrong for the part and step aside. But Davis' ego wouldn't let her. And the stench from the performance will linger forever.

She also doesn't have much range. She can do big dramatic scenes, but she is not sexy, she is not funny, and she is rather sour.

And she is not winning the Oscar this year.

I like her but she’s becoming one note.

She play every character the same way—overwrought, overly dramatic and emotional

Fug.

She's an ASSHOLE

R18, that's right, Datalounge only ever criticizes black performers.

[quote]Is it because she will win the Best Actress Oscar next year?

She won’t even be nominated. SAG is where her train begins and ends.

VI-ola is going to seethe when literal who Danielle Deadwyler comes out of nowhere to win the Oscar.

Not pretty enough to be on film.

I watched HTGAWM from start to finish and although the show went off the rails, she was brilliant brilliant brilliant in every scene.

She’s great on film, but equally good on stage (100% deserved her Tony Awards) and that’s the sign of a true actress.

I can’t speak to her behavior on film sets, but I have a friend who worked on the Fences revival and said she was serious and focused, but far from a bitch.

I told her I liked her in "The Woman King" and she farted right in my face!

"I have the Emmy. I have the Tony. I have the OSCARRRRRRR! Pay me what I'm worth!!!!!"

DL is not kind to negresses, especially those uppity ones!

Don't hate her. She's good in some things, not in others. I don't think any actor is exempt from criticism. Or film.

As far as the Woman King goes, Davis should have resisted temptation. Juicy role, but problematic script. My respect really went up for Lypita. It's hard to resist a juicy role.

Which is maybe David's real issue. She doesn't know when to say "no". She wasn't going to pull off the calm, elegant, fierce Michelle Obama. She couldn't get inside the role and fell back on mannerisms .

I can't stand her because she thinks the world owes her, when it obviously doesn't, plus she's not even that great of an actress.

She wants everyone to know that she will never be enough and make people grovel at her feet. Then she goes home to her ten million dollar mansion.

Let's just say I'd never cast her onstage in "Hay Fever"!

I find her amusing.

I find it amusing that most have caught on to her schtick.

Exhume those BODIES!?!!

You're so right, OP. We envy her her snot-dripping nose and her extremely thick middle-aged body!

Her insistence that she is a sexual woman if off-putting from someone that's not empirically attractive.

It's only the same 3 people who just continuously chat back and forth amongst themselves.

R46 are you alright? They let unattractive people have sex these days, you know.

Don't we hate everyone?

We hate her because she's a Viola and not a proper Violin.

Like a musical saw, those nasty Violas.

[quote] Because with all her whining and posturing, she really isn't that great an actress. We're constantly told how amazing she is but then she goes and does something like the First Lady mini-series, and she isn't simply bad, she is absolutely awful. A great actor would know when they are wrong for the part and step aside. But Davis' ego wouldn't let her. And the stench from the performance will linger forever.

I agree, she was wrong for the part of Michelle Obama. I remember in one of the DL threads on The First Lady, someone described her portrayal of Michelle as a bad MadTV or SNL type performance. Viola played her as someone who was too pissed off and Viola had zero abilities in trying to portray the warmness of Michelle.

[quote]Don't we hate everyone?

No, this is DataLounge.

We do not hate Patty Duke.

I’d like to see a candid conversation between her and Mo’nique.

She's so real!

Because she’s a nigger.

She has the magical ability to be flat and wooden AND chew the scenery at the same exact time which I didn't even think was possible.

P.S. Burn in Hell, R55.

[quote] I hate "you all."

[quote] All you need is "you."

Not when referring to Datalounge as a collective.

Then it's okay to use "you all."

The racist trolls hate her. They hate all black women. They come here because their own sites agree with them, so it's no "fun". Exhausting.

Bad attitude. Arrogant bitch.

Uppity

Mean. Chip on her shoulder. Plays the victim. Whiney. Complaining. Never happy. She's got a problem.

Worthless stupid infantile trolls. Having fun? THIS is your fun?

Sad.

Poor Viola

Not true, R37! We love Michelle Obama!

I like Viola a lot, but I will say her Oscar campaign for Fences was annoying given the category fraud. That was a lead performance and she would’ve actually beaten Emma Stone had the studio had the balls to back her in Lead. Michelle Williams was screwed that year.

There you have it, folks! Thank you, R55, for being honest with your racism! Many on DL like to pretend it doesn’t exist here, but at least you’re brave enough to stand in your truth!

Viola is an exceptional actress.

People think she’s full of herself but fail to hold self-confidence against male stars. And she had an exceptionally tough start in life.

^^^ One of these Klan Grannies called her "uppity"...like we're in Alabama in 1971.

She is actually kind of boring and not worth the attention she begs for.

I don't thinks she's ever played a normal person which is sad given her talent. A lot of quality roles for black people are still very stereotypical. She's one of the few people entitled to speak out about it.

She’s a pain in the ass. I don’t need to know everything she thinks, feels or says but she insists that I do.

wtf they got that ole bag sellin L oreal beauty products? for what???? ducks ????

She's nastyful.

I hate her, she is so damned boring. Useless as OP.

R75 is Momma.

"It's too goddamned sultry in here!"

What's not to hate?

Let's start w/her first name and go from there.

Personally I didn't like how she turned in a substandard performance on The First Lady and then lashed out at critics when they mocked her. That's my only beef with her. God she was terrible as Michelle.

They hate me because I'm so sexy.

I avoid social situations because I hate to be judged. Within a few minutes of talking to me, people want to know where I went to college (nowhere) and what kind of work I do (entry-level, unimpressive).

An old acquaintance recently invited me to his 70th birthday party and I lied and said I had to work, because I don't want to watch that deflated expression over and over when I explain my lack of credentials.

Not to pile on to your problems r81 but you also seem to be in the wrong thread.

She thinks her career rivals Meryl's. STFU.

I don't hate ber. I think k she's very pretty, but she seems to have a nasty personality, and she is very dull. I don't hate her though.

How is she in comedy? (Has she ever done comedy?) I enjoyed The Woman King, but the role didn’t let Viola demonstrate much range.

She has always been one of my favorite actresses and she stole the movie from Meryl with that one scene in Doubt. Her story of a childhood growing up in soul killing poverty and being told that she was ugly and would never make it as an actress because of her looks was moving and heart wrenching. No doubt she taps into that pain for certain roles. But hearing that story repeated in every interview starts to wear on the listener. It alienates people who are in her corner and who revere her work. And it doesn’t seem to help her deal with unresolved issues. She needs therapy. And lots of it.

[quote] Her story of a childhood growing up in soul killing poverty and being told that she was ugly and would never make it as an actress because of her looks was moving and heart wrenching. No doubt she taps into that pain for certain roles. But hearing that story repeated in every interview starts to wear on the listener.

That's a good point.

And contrast that with Gabourey Sidibe who grew up in that same poverty. I think her mother was a street performer, or something like that.

Looks-wise, Viola has had it easier than Gabourey.

Yet Gabby has a decent career, and I never hear her whining, or complaining, or being ungrateful.

Have a seat, Viola.

I think Gabourey Sidibe and other actors who grew up in poverty have enough sense to not whine or complain too much in the media because they know it will eventually turn people off. Hilary Swank used to talk about living in a car with her mother, but eventually stopped either because someone told her to or she realized on her own that it was enough.

Aside from her growing up in poverty, it's clear Viola hates that she's not very attractive and she is rough looking. She probably has to have some resentment towards Angela Bassett who is very beautiful and looks great for her age. Viola is younger than Angela and she's knows that she will not age well like Angela.

I want to hear more about r81

We're intrigued.

I prefer the violin.

She's a cunt!

I love her but I also think that she takes herself too seriously. Maybe that’s what it is.

Viola was an answer on Jeopardy today. No one got it. Poor Viola.

I absolutely loved her in Ghost. “I know you don’t think I’m giving this four million dollars to a bunch of nuns!” Classic!

[quote] Viola was an answer on Jeopardy today. No one got it. Poor Viola. —M

At least those fuckers didn't accuse her of being 90 years old!!

Who does this bitch think she is?

Interesting, that smug Viola has a life coach. Her life coach should give her advice on not being a smug ungrateful cunt. But, then again life coaches are full of shit phonies.

Her raw animal magnetism is more than I can bear. Sweats sexuality.

Gabourey Sidibe seems like a fun, nice person, and as others have noted, she also grew up in abject poverty and is certainly less conventionally attractive than Viola. She also hasn’t had 1/10th of the success or accolades Viola has, and you never hear her whinging about the state of her career. She gets dragged in DL as a token fat joke, but I think she’s a good actress. A lot of people wrote off her performance in Precious as a “fat black girl from the ghetto playing a fat black girl from the ghetto,” but if you watch interviews with her, it’s evident that she very much is not that character in real life. Her acting in that film was very good and, at times, heartbreaking.

[quote] Her life coach should give her advice on not being a smug ungrateful cunt

Her life coach is probably the one encouraging her to be smug and ungrateful.

R102 lol change Hollywood.

M hates her, ask her.

The racism and misogyny on this site is sickening.

It’s possible to think Viola is a limited actress or has an annoying personality without being a racist asshole.

I don’t hate her but she doesn’t have much range. Octavia Spencer is a far better actor who can be funny, serious, heartbreaking, scary, and campy. The Michelle Obama portrayal is going to be her mommie dearest.

R8 r58 wrong, wrong, wrong.

It's “all y’all”

The verb's conjugation, and actress's actual name is optional: “Hey why all y'all hate that Viola David so much?”

R106 - “ .. The racism and misogyny on this site is sickening. .. “

I can assure you that Ms. Davis can out-racist the best of us on DL.

She be Ugly. :-/

Rofl R97!!

That link is hilarious.

Especially all the comments and memes.

Miss Viola must be both pissed off and horrified at the same time.

What's a Viola Davis, and why should we care?

R107 Unfortunately that’s not how it works anymore. You MUST love her.

Her face and personality.

I don't hate her, I think I kinda understand what her issues are. That all being said, she is a lot. That first Emmy speech could have been taken down a few notches.

We tend to like the Charlie’s Angels actresses. I remember a glowing topic on Pam Grier. So there are a few female stars we like. Madaline kahn. Terry garr. Oh! There was the thread on Rita Moreno that read like a love letter. Carol Burnett. Cicley tyson. I think we liked pearl Bailey. It goes on & on - the DL love is huge.

Because she's a perpetual victim and it's annoying.

Whersh my love R117? The gaysh love me!

Yaaaaaawwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Vioola who?