Stylin’-On-These-Hoes :: Viola Davis Does LA Times Mag

Actress Viola Davis, well-known for her role in ‘The Help’, covers the latest issue of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, showing off her natural hair. Peep a few excerpts from her interview:

On perfecting her craft from a young age, Davis said:

“Even back when I was 11, I knew that Isabel Sanford from The Jeffersons came from the stage. I never watched the Oscars, but I watched the Tonys every year. I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to be like Colleen Dewhurst or Jane Alexander—one of those great ladies of the theater, doing Ibsen and Shakespeare.”

On making a name for herself in Hollywood, Davis said:

“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 costar role in a TV show here or there.”

And on mentoring up-and-coming stars:

“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.”

Davis also did a 4 page spread for the magazine; peep the pics below.

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