Salon.com > librarian http://www.salon.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:08:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Viola Davis on why her role in “Beautiful Creatures” changed from a maid to a librarian http://www.salon.com/2013/02/12/viola_davis_on_why_her_role_in_beautiful_creatures_changed_from_a_maid_to_a_librarian/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/12/viola_davis_on_why_her_role_in_beautiful_creatures_changed_from_a_maid_to_a_librarian/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13198978 Viola Davis, nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her role as a maid in the civil rights era-set movie "The Help," will most likely never play a maid again. She recently told CNN, "I'm tired of that," explaining, "Me and Octavia [Spencer], Aunjanue Ellis, Roslyn Ruff – we all played maids in 'The Help' and it was fabulous. It's a fabulous story because we were personalized and all of those things, but I think that people need to see an African-American in the 21st century integrated in the life of this town and family who's not in servitude."

Except that in "Beautiful Creatures," the book that Davis' next movie is based upon, her character Amma is, again, a maid. She told the Hollywood Reporter that "[Director] Richard LaGravenese forbade us from reading the book. He said, "Do not touch the book." (Naturally, Davis then got the book). "I read half of it and then I put it down because Amma is a maid, and I just said, 'OK, there’s nothing I can learn from this.' "

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