Breaking Baz: Viola Davis & Ted Danson Give Masterclasses In Artistry At Special Golden Globe Awards Ceremony
deadline.comThose actors scurrying around at the festival in Palm Springs would have been better served witnessing masterclasses in artistry from Viola Davis and Ted Danson, the recipients of Golden Globes honors on Friday night.
Not only that, there was Mary Steenburgen and Meryl Streep, too. And Carol Burnett and Jane Fonda! Streep spoke of her first meeting with Davis.
It was when the two women met at the table read for the screen version of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt.
Streep admitted that that she’d been a little out of sorts because playwright Tony Kushner had hailed Davis as his “favorite actor in the whole world.” But then Streep sat opposite Davis at the read-through, with Amy Adams and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and saw exactly what Kushner had meant. “She sat there, so still, like a quiet volcano just pretending to be a hill… she’s getting ready underneath,” she told the gathering at the Beverly Hilton event hosted by Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne.
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