Viola Davis Covers LA Times
The Help star and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis gets glam for LA Times ! Inside the February 2012 issue entitled Oscar Calling , the Academy Award front-runner speaks on various topics including: how she got her start, the type of characters she likes, learning how to act at an early age, and her new found fame. Read a few excerpts from the interview and then enjoy the photo spread below:
On not getting superstar status after over 20 years of acting:
“That really is our plight, especially as women of color, you can have all the training in the world, come from a respectable background and yet never get that big opportunity that breaks you out—never.”
On her big break:
“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 , It makes people realize you’re there. Otherwise you’re that black girl who had a guest or co-star role in a TV show here or there.”
On the need for young people to be mentored to aspire to something fulfilling:
“I am doing this out of necessity. 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.”
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