Success hasn´t come easy for the Oscar-winning star. She talks to Benjamin Lee about the limited roles black actors are offered, why The Help was a missed opportunity, and how she learned to take the lead - in life and on screenIn the opening scene of Widows, the new thriller from artist-turned-director Steve McQueen, Viola Davis lies in bed, passionately kissing her on-screen husband, Liam Neeson. A kiss between a married couple might not seem remarkable, but for Davis it is a groundbreaking moment.`For me, this is something you´ll not see this year, last year, the year before that,` Davis says, sitting in her living room in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. `That is, a dark-skinned woman of colour, at 53 years old, kissing Liam Neeson. Not just kissing a white man,` she adds, `Liam Neeson, a hunk. And kissing him sexually, romantically.` Continue reading...
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