Viola Davis: I feel like I betrayed myself by being in The Help
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standard.co.ukViola Davis has said she “betrayed herself” when she starred in The Help.The 54-year-old, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for playing Aibileen Clark in the drama, said Tate Taylor’s film “catered to a white audience” without putting enough emphasis on black voices.“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity,” she said in the August edition of Vanity Fair.“They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be black, but it’s catering to the white audience.
The white audience at the most can sit and get an academic lesson into how we are. “Then they leave the movie theatre and they talk about what it meant.
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