Archive for the 'Co-Stars' Category

No lie, @violadavis is so scary as Amanda Waller I was afraid to give her acting notes on set. #TheSuicideSquad https://t.co/vOghugSqrR — James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 26, 2021

Viola spoke with ET Canada about working with her co-star Chadwick Boseman! Academy Award-winner Viola Davis reflects on working with the late Chadwick Boseman on his final film, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, which is already receiving Oscar buzz.

Viola’s co-star and friend the amazing Cicely Tyson spoke with Emmy Magazine about how amazing it is to work with Viola on ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder. TheWrap Emmy Magazine: “When I have an opportunity to work with someone that giving, it’s extraordinary,” Tyson says of the “How to Get Away With Murder” […]

Viola wrote this great piece for Vanity Fair about the talented Ms. Tyson whom she is not only co-stars with on HTGAWM but also her friend. With a career spanning six decades and dozens of film credits, honorary Oscar winner Cicely Tyson is a bastion of Hollywood achievement. Viola Davis looks back at a lifetime […]

From Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. […]

Shondaland.com gives us a peek at the Widows Q&A. In a post-screening Q+A, the cast and director of “Widows” talked collaboration, representation, and what they learned on set. Steve McQueen’s latest effort, “Widows,” dropped onto Must See Lists late last year with little more than the reveal of its cast. After all, who wouldn’t be […]

We are proud to announce that the recipient of the highly coveted John Schlesinger Britannia Award for Excellence in Directing will be Steve McQueen. And we are further delighted to announce that the award will be presented by the amazing Viola Davis! #Britannias pic.twitter.com/0MLy9wfhBd — BAFTA Los Angeles (@BAFTALA) August 16, 2018

Okay how cute is Octavia! She talks about being up against Viola for the Oscar during her interview with Jimmy Fallon.

People did this awesome article about how Viola & Denzel met and how they built a friendship. Denzel Washington doesn’t remember exactly when he met Viola Davis — but she does. It was 21 years ago when Davis was starring in the 1996 Broadway production of August Wilson’s play Seven Guitars. “He came [backstage] and […]

Viola’s co-star and friend Denzel Washington speaks about Viola during his interview on the Graham Norton Show.