All hail the king. Your exclusive first look at ViolaDavis in ‘The Woman King’ has arrived.
which will storm into theaters on September 16, tells the story of the Agoji , a real-life army of women warriors who defended the powerful West African kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. spoke to Davis and Prince-Bythewood about this unprecedented action-drama, which has been described as a Black femaleViola, I think viewers will be amazed by your beefed-up physical transformation. You really trained hard to play General Nanisca.
The battle scenes in the film appear to be graphic, and culturally specific. We see dark-skinned Black women with well-oiled bodies, muscles, and serrated fingernails that are used as murder weapons.My approach was that you don’t need to add anything to the story. These women were fascinating and didn’t need to be embellished or glossy. I wanted it to be real and visceral and raw.Courtesy of SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT.I’ve never had a role like this before. It’s transformative.
And Viola. She creates an environment where you bring your A game. She made her character better. She made scenes better.As a director there are times where you step in, and there are other times where you just stay quiet and watch. In that scene, Nawi [who’s played by] is getting chastised for talking back and not respecting, and she starts to walk away. In an unscripted moment, V reaches down and snatches her machete from her. That was a turning point in the scene.
Most of your audience won’t know anything about this buried history. How much did you both know about the Agoji when you came to this project?The only thing I knew, literally, was that there were women somewhere in Africa that were called Amazons.were based on real warriors.I’m told there’s only one full-length, English-language book about the Agoji.—written by a white man. I had to cross out a lot of it because it was full of editorial comments like, “They looked like beasts. They were ugly.
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