Viola Davis is getting to work on her next project!
12.06.2022 - 18:11 / variety.com
Samuel L. Jackson and Viola Davis are both veterans of the New York theater scene, and embrace the opportunity to dig into their shared experiences before addressing their latest work on TV. On Apple TV+, Jackson takes the lead role in “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” an adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel about an elder struggling with dementia. And on Showtime, Davis plays Michelle Obama in the dramatic anthology “The First Lady.” SAMUEL L. JACKSON: How do you feel about rolling around town, seeing yourself on these big old billboards? How is that?VIOLA DAVIS: I don’t see that as myself.
I see it as something else. Michelle Obama, the other Viola Davis. I don’t marry the two because otherwise it’s too difficult.
JACKSON: What was the first time you saw yourself up on a big old billboard and it was OK to see yourself?DAVIS: It was OK to see myself when I was doing the play. Because it’s different when you’re doing the play. That was exciting, to see yourself outside the theater.JACKSON: When were you at Juilliard?DAVIS: I was at Juilliard from ’89 to ’93.JACKSON: I was just about to leave New York at that time.
I think “Jungle Fever” got me out of New York. The first time I remember seeing you, you were playing this mean-ass cop on “Law & Order.”DAVIS: I loved that role. I played a serial killer.
No one else in my family liked that role. But I loved it.JACKSON: We all passed through a “Law & Order” phase because back when I was doing my stuff, that was one of two shows that was shot in New York. Only “Law & Order” and “The Cosby Show.”DAVIS: When you were doing all of the plays — Henry Street, Negro Ensemble — what years were those in?JACKSON: We moved to New York Halloween night 1976.
Viola Davis is getting to work on her next project!
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Viola Davis has a big issue with social media.
Viola Davis has higher hopes for Hollywood.
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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterOscar winner Viola Davis says social media has undermined her art form, especially as it relates to modern theatrical movies.The “Fences” and “The First Lady” actor delivered a blunt and juicy indictment of what it takes to market films nowadays. In a conversation about her content label JuVee at the annual Produced By Conference on Saturday, Davis discussed the notion of escapism at the cineplex and how tentpole movies can erode the nuance of storytelling.“Social media has taken over the defining of this art form. I think that the word ‘escapism’ is something that is interesting — the goal all of us have is to sit in a movie with the popcorn and Sour Patch Kids and forget about our lives — but, literally, it destroys our art form,” she said.
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