VIOLA DAVIS 📷 Andre D. Wagner
May 17, 2023 | The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival.
VIOLA DAVIS by AB+DM for InStyle Magazine, December 2020
Viola Davis photographed by Keith Major for EBONY Magazine (2022)
Viola Davis on The Hot Ones
VIOLA DAVIS 2022 | Marcos Florentino & Kelvin Yule ph. for ELLE Brasil
VIOLA DAVIS 📷 Essence Magazine
TOP 20 FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE 12. Viola Davis as Veronica Rawlins Widows (2018) dir. Steve McQueen
It’s not easy for me to admit that I’ve been standing in the same place for eighteen years…
Fences (2016)
Viola Davis attends the 71st Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California (September 22, 2019)
Viola Davis as Veronica Rawlins in Widows (2018) dir. Steve McQueen
VIOLA DAVIS AS VERONICA RAWLINS Widows (2018) Dir. Steve McQueen
“I don’t own a dog in life, so I was (complaining) like, I’ve gotta work with a dog. What if the dog licks me? Dogs are nasty and disgusting. Within the first five minutes, I’m kissing the dog, I’m holding the dog, the dog was on my chest. I love that dog, and she came to me so easily.”
The black artist cannot live in a revisionist place. The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity. Humanity is messy. People are messy. Caucasian actors know that. They understand that. They understand that when you bring a human being to life you show all the flaws as well as the beauty. We, as African American artists, are more concerned with image and message and not execution. Which is why every time you see our images they’ve been watered down to a point where they are not realistic at all. It’s like all of our humanity has been washed out. We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth tellers.
Viola Davis photographed by Virginie Khateeb
VIOLA DAVIS, SAM ROCKWELL 90th Academy Awards | March 4, 2018