Bossip Video

Viola Davis is making a household name for herself these days and now she is being featured in the LA Times where she takes some amazing photos and speaks on being black in the industry:

“You can be in the business for 23 years, which I have been, and suddenly something happens that wakes people up. For me, that was being in a movie with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman,” Davis says of Doubt. “It makes people realize you’re there. Otherwise you’re that black girl who had a guest or costar role in a TV show here or there.”

It’s not that Davis isn’t grateful. “I don’t feel bitterness,” she insists. But even as a second Oscar campaign awaits for her part in The Help, Davis is not afraid to point out the weaknesses in her industry. Her next target isn’t another lead role. It’s producing, a task she feels she must undertake if she and other black actresses are to get more fulfilling work. Young people need to be mentored to aspire to something fulfilling.

“I am doing this out of necessity,” she says. “If I am not the instrument of change, I can meander through this business and be the black woman who always has two or three scenes but with fabulous actors around me.”

Read the article in it’s entirety…LA Times

More On Bossip!

Bossip Exclusive: “Love & Hip-Hop” Is About To Get Dirty… Vh1 Bringing Series To Atlanta

Bangers Grown Up: A Gallery Of Celebrity Seeds That Could Get Every Single Ounce Of The Bizness!

Sugarbabies: A List Of The Most Spoiled And Scandalous Sugar Daddy Having Slores Of All Time!!! (Part 2)

This Can Get Weird: Ex-Spouses And Ex-Boos That Are Still Somehow BFFs

Comments

Bossip Comment Policy
Please read our Comment Policy before commenting.