Viola Davis: The Help was created in the cesspool of systemic racism
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breakingnews.ieViola Davis has said there is a part of her that feels she betrayed herself by starring in The Help and added that the film was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism”.
The actress earned an Oscar nomination for her starring role of Aibileen Clark in Tate Taylor’s 2011 drama chronicling a group of black maids working and living in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 1960s.
However, she has since spoken of her regret at taking the part, telling the New York Times in 2018 that it focused more on white voices than black ones.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, she said: “Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity. “They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be black, but it’s catering to the white
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