Viola Davis On Bland Roles For Women: ‘I Look At Them Sometimes And Don’t Recognise Them’

“They’re watered-down femininity. Like when your mom told you to make sure when you sat down to keep your legs closed, or not mess up your hair, it’s the famous saying: ‘The well-behaved woman seldom makes history.’ … We have to ‘woman up’ and live our truths through our work and define ourselves in our terms, not the Mr Potato Head model of male desirability.”