In third-grade Viola says, “eight or nine white boys in my class made it their daily, end-of-school ritual to chase me like dogs hunting prey” And why did the Oscar Slap hurt so bad.
“Beauty is attached to the value,” said Viola Davis she looked up to Cicily Tyson. She is scared of the book. She has real power she is letting it all go so we can all learn.
The one thing that hurt me about the slap is Will Smith is one of the most accomplished actors and it Killed me as a black man because I looked up to him like Sammy Davis Jr. and Sidney Pointier. And Will Smith let our ancestors down at the moment. Sidney won the first Oscar and Will was the first Black man to disgrace us on camera with the slap. The Oscars were the first black people could hold their heads up to Lilies of the Field. Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies of the Field (1963). I was not even a year yet and I saw President Obama and I saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock and I wanted to blame somebody for that I blamed Jada for never loving Will the way he needed to be loved. He looked for women that never loved him. Her mother had to talk her into marrying him. She did not stop him from going on that stage and then she laughed when Chris got smacked one look changed everything. Will is still the 15-year-old boy that got broke up with and he is afraid that Jada will leave him and it is sad as hell. 250 million dollars lost in future projects and getting sued. So that is why hate the slap.
Viola Davis says Will Smith helped her reckon with how childhood trauma continued to inform her everyday experience.
In her new memoir “Finding Me” the Oscar winner recalls a pivot in her perspective while on the set of “Suicide Squad.”
During a break in filming, she says Smith asked her, “Viola, who are you?”
“Look, I’m always going to be that 15-year-old boy whose girlfriend broke up with him,” the actor, who is currently mired in controversy, explained. “That’s always going to be me. So,
“There I was, a working actress with steady gigs, Broadway credits, multiple industry awards, and a reputation of bringing professionalism and excellence to any project,” Viola writes in her book, per USA Today. “Hell, Oprah knew who I was. Yet, sitting there conversing with Will Smith, I was still that little, terrified, third-grade Black girl.”
One of the experiences detailed in the book from when she was in third grade involves repeated racist abuse.
“Eight or nine white boys in my class made it their daily, end-of-school ritual to chase me like dogs hunting prey,” she writes.
According to USA Today, the boys would hurl not only racist slurs but objects like rocks and even bricks.
Viola Davis’ memoir “Finding Me” is available everywhere books are sold as of Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
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