Oscar winner Viola Davis tapped into her 'warrior spirit' for her role in 'The Woman King' — and calls the role the most transformational of her career.
,” which the film’s production used as one of its historical reference guides. One of few official reports on Dahomey’s female warriors, the book chronicles the accounts of early 19th- and 20th-century European ethnographers and therefore comes with all the associated racial baggage.“We were referred to as bestial. And ugly. And overly masculine,” said Davis, leaving enough space between each adjective to let gravity pull them down.
“My thing was just to be fearful and also to believe that I have nothing within myself to fight this huge human being because I’m a girl,” Davis said of the woman she was before filming began. “But I had to get over that.”called cut. And what’s more, the actress didn’t want to.“There was something about [that fear] that made me think how often I abandon huge challenges because I feel that I don’t have the weaponry to overcome it.
She taken to calling “The Woman King” her “magnum opus,” the culmination of decades of work on and off camera, lifting weights seen and unseen.
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