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Jennifer Lawrence Reveals the Biggest Hindrance to Her Craft & Why It Suffered, Viola Davis Reveals Her Criticisms of Juilliard - Biggest 'Variety' Revelations!

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Viola, on why she thought the film wouldn’t happen

She added, “What I have going for me is I’m a Black actress. And I understand how people perceive that. I don’t see it as a hindrance. But when have I ever seen anything like “Woman King,” not just with me in it, but with anyone who looks like me in it? What studio is going to put money behind it? How are they going to be convinced that Black women can lead a global box office? So, yeah, I said, ‘That’s not going to happen, because you don’t see it.’”

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