Viola Davis on Hollywood: ‘You either have to be a Black version of a white ideal, or you have to be white’ | Viola Davis
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 18, 2022
Many of us had existential thoughts during lockdown, and assuaged them with new hobbies. We did thousand-piece puzzles. We crocheted and knitted. We learned new songs on our guitars, baked overzealously, and connected with our plantlife. For Viola Davis, knocking around in her $5m mansion in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, it was writing, though the nature of it was less assuagement than staring into the coalface of an existential crisis. Who am I? What . . .
