Viola Davis has admitted she was “a little judgmental” towards Chadwick Boseman on the set of his final film.
Viola Davis didn’t know Chadwick Boseman was ill
The ‘G20’ actress starred with the late actor in 2020’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and because Chadwick kept his battle with colon cancer a secret, the Oscar-winning star admitted she was baffled to see his girlfriend and make-up artist rubbing his back and playing meditative music.
She told The Times newspaper: “There was a part of me that was a little judgmental — why do you need all that? Little did I know that they were doing it because he was dying.”
Viola grew up in “abject poverty and dysfunction” in Rhode Island and used acting as an outlet for fun, but then the “sense of torture” that comes with the profession slowly seeped in.
She said: “For me and my sister it was playing two wealthy white women who went out for tea in Beverly Hills with our chihuahuas. It was an imagination playground. Then, somewhere in there, pain entered into it.
“Training, speech, technique, critics — there’s a sense of torture that you almost have to make peace with.”
The 59-year-old actress and two of her six siblings moved to Rhode Island with their parents when she was around two years old, leaving the others with their grandparents, and despite the difficulty of her home life with a violent alcoholic father, Viola still “believed in herself”, though she can see now how “damaged” she was.
She said: “Little Viola absolutely believed in herself in the midst of poverty. Even though I look back and go, ‘Oh she was so damaged’…
“There is something deep within you that doesn’t believe that you’re worth it.”
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