Viola Davis continues an actually illuminating press tour for her upcoming crime drama Widows with a New York Times interview, published Tuesday, in which she submits that the 2011 Tate Taylor film in which she starred and for which she was Academy Award-nominated, The Help, wasn’t the greatest.
Viola Davis is ready for folks to focus on the pay gap between white women and women of color in the entertainment industry.
Four years after his stunning 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar for Best Picture, writer/director Steve McQueen is back with what looks like one of the most exciting and A-listiest movies I’ve seen in some time: Widows. It’s an original thriller penned by McQueen and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Gillian Flynn that…
Viola Davis and Lupita Nyong’o are taking a break from inspiring us in real life to inspire us onscreen as a mother-daughter warrior pair in a film aptly titled The Woman King. Hell yeah.
Jimmy Kimmel opened his interview with Viola Davis on Thursday night by asking her about Melania Trump’s apparent fandom for How To Get Away With Murder. She was kind of pissed he asked the question, but seems more mad at the idea of Melania enjoying her show at all than at Kimmel.
Many in Hollywood continue to come forward with harsh words for Harvey Weinstein, as well as hopeful hypotheses that these revelations (allegations all, but damning in their volume and content), will encourage other victims of sexual assault by powerful predators to share their stories.
My long-lost parents Viola Davis and Larry Wilmore are collaborating on an ABC comedy about a group of black sorority sisters, titled Black Don’t Crack.
Viola Davis has spent her entire promotional run talking about how Fences, and August Wilson, are important to her especially because they celebrate and embody the life of the average person. And she, perhaps better than any other actor in Hollywood, has the chops to embody the quiet, subtle emotion that average…
Two great actors, Viola Davis and Julia Roberts, will act greatly together in a movie based on a popular book.
Meryl Streep was presented with the Golden Globes’s Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement award in a scene-stealing introduction by Viola Davis Sunday. In a long speech, Streep spoke out for “the most vilified segments in American society right now” and praised her colleagues for their “compassionate” performances.…
There are plenty of movies up for awards tonight most people haven’t seen—show me someone who heard of Lion before the broadcast began and I’ll show you a liar or a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press. But one familiar-sounding movie that keeps coming up is one that never existed at all: Hidden Fences.
Yes, Viola Davis won the Golden Globe for her role in Fences, not to be confused with HIDDEN FENCES.
Viola Davis was honored today with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and I hope you’ll join me in saying: it’s about goddamn time.
ABC signed a deal with Violas Davis’s JuVee Productions in April to develop projects for the network, and the announcement for this new musical comedy sounds very promising.
The first trailer for the film version of August Wilson’s iconic play Fences stars my parents Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, who also happen to be the king and queen of powerful monologues. Both already won Tony Awards for their roles in the 2010 Broadway version of Wilson’s brilliant black American story about…
The excellent Viola Davis won an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Emmy in 2015 for her role as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away With Murder, and was nominated this year as well, though Tatiana Maslany ultimately won.
Viola Davis was interviewed in the latest episode of The Jess Cagle Show, and once again proved how good she is at being a famous actor. Davis, who began acting for TV and film in her late 20s, has been rightfully drenched in praise for her work as an actor, but something she should also be given credit for is her…
As the portmanteau’d PR chimera Hiddleswift continues to grow larger and larger while it feasts upon whatever is left of Tom Hiddleston’s dwindling soul, Calvin Harris wants you to know that Calvin Harris is doing just fine! perfectly fine!, perfectly so so so awesome!, and not thinking of how life is an existential…
It wasn’t enough to watch Captain MarĂa LaGuerta ignore all the red flags season after season on Dexter until she met her inevitable fate. Now Lauren VĂ©lez is playing another woman in authority who somehow doesn’t see what’s coming.
Just two days after ABC announced a new development deal with Kerry Washington, the studio has also signed a deal with Viola Davis to develop new projects across its cable, broadcast, and online platforms.
