Viola Davis previously said she has great regret in acting and stars in “The Help.” Now Davis is talking about the movie again.
The actress criticized the film in a recent Vanity Fair article and said it was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism.”
Davis, 54, played the role of maid Aibileen Clark who worked for a white family in the 1960s. She starred alongside Octavia Spencer, who also played a maid.
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Viola Davis speaking at the Annual Women in Film Gala (Photo by Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP, File)
“The Help” earned Davis an Oscar nomination and skyrocketed his career.
Despite the success, the Academy Award winner criticized the film’s narrative for its focus on white characters rather than telling the story through the lens of black characters.
“Not many narratives are invested in our humanity,” said Davis. “They are interested in the idea of what it means to be black, but … it is catering to the white audience.”
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In this publicity image from the Disney-released film, Viola Davis is shown in a scene from ‘The Help’. (AP, file)
She continued: “The white audience at most can sit back and receive an academic lesson on how we are doing. Then they leave the cinema and talk about what it meant. They are not touched by who we were. “
“There is a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself and my people, because I was in a movie that I wasn’t ready to [tell the whole truth]Davis added.
The “How To Escape The Murder” actress first opened up about her problems with “Help” in 2018.
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“I just felt that the voices of the maids were not heard at the end of the day,” Davis told the New York Times. “I know Aibileen. I know Minny They are my grandmother They are my mother And I know that if you make a movie that the whole premise is based on, I want to know how it feels to work for whites and raise children in 1963, I want to know how you really feel about it . I never heard that in the course of the movie. “
