![]() ![]() Those roles are so much a part of my life. ![]() “With August, when he came along, I didn’t have to do that. “You’re always trying to fit yourself in these roles, trying to make somebody else see you in these roles, transforming into - in your brain - some white woman,” Davis says. Most of all, as a drama student, a new light turned on for Davis when she first encountered Wilson - a playwright who stood among the other greats. NEW YORK – Like many of those involved in the making of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s not easy for Viola Davis to summarize what playwright August Wilson has meant to her except to answer, “Everything.”ĭavis' first stage role was in Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” She made her Broadway debut in his “Seven Guitars” and won a Tony for “King Hedley II.” After playing Rose on Broadway in Wilson’s “Fences,” she reprised the role in Denzel Washington’s 2016 film, winning her an Oscar. ![]()
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