#viola excellence

[belle-ayitian]

2023 NAACP Image Awards | Red Carpet

[blackisdivine]

Viola Davis

Black beauty & Excellence.

[callmebrycelee]

[zeviyer]

𝓜𝓮𝓽 𝓖𝓪𝓵𝓪 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 (2/2)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2023)

[jakeperalta]

finally saw tbosas and my god one thing about a hunger games cast is they will all absolutely eat up their performances

[afrotumble]

[ladyartemesia]

How about "Bare your Soul" as a title for the fic?

You know what that just might work 🧐

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

She's an amazing actress.

-fae

Viola Davis becomes the 18th person in history to achieve EGOT status, winning an Emmy (“How to Get Away With Murder”), Grammy (“Finding Me”), Oscar (“Fences”) and Tony Award (2: “King Hedley II” and “Fences”)

[belle-ayitian]

2023 Met Gala | Red Carpet | Black Excellence

Theme: "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”

[blackisdivine]

[blackisdivine]

She's always so gorgeous ❤

Viola Davis photographed by Keith Major for EBONY Magazine (2022)

[kamaljohnsonnetwork]

Black Actors In Hollywood Debacle | The G.A.B.

Full Show On The YouTube (Kamal Johnson Network). Link Below

YT Link

https://youtu.be/HO6QQcCv0vk?si=hGROnIV7pVAkwo0A via YouTube

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iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/338-the-gab-101916901/episode/black-actors-in-hollywood-debacle-140014805/

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[lunarcry]

if they were to appeal to me directly theyd have mom show up to protect gran, mika protecting shitori n otherworld version of byleistr n viola

[breathedreamscream]

Viola Davis becomes the 18th person in history to achieve EGOT status, winning an Emmy (“How to Get Away With Murder”), Grammy (“Finding Me”), Oscar (“Fences”) and Tony Award (2: “King Hedley II” and “Fences”)

[whenweallvote]

"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot." – Viola “Mother” Fletcher, oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

We will never forget this history, Mother Fletcher. On its 103rd anniversary, we honor the lives of the Tulsa Race Massacre victims and the legacy of The Greenwood District — a community that exemplified the power of Black excellence, Black success, and Black freedom.

[watercolourferns]

If there0s a villain that actually scared the soul out of me in a very raw and "I wanna get out of her presence" way, is Dra. Volumnia Gaul.

Viola Davis as a villain?? More excellent and mesmerizing than you'd think! She nailed the character, imo. And she did it so well that I think I'll have nightmares.

Don't worry, no spoilers from the movie, but by now I'm sure you've read the book.

Dr. Gaul comes off as not just villanous and 100% evil, SHE COMES OFF AS NON-HUMAN. In contrast with Highbottom, Arachne, and Grandma'am (yes, she's sort of an antagonist as she molds Snow's character negatively a lot) Dr. Gaul doesn't look like your typical villain in a dictatorship; she simply doesn't react like a regular human does.

She's not overly arrogant, nor overly spiteful, she knows she's good and she knows the power she wields not just as Game-Maker but also as a doctor; yet she's far removed from what's happening around her in the sense that it doesn't affect her negatively...up until the 10th games, but as I said, no spoilers. And even after that she recovers very well and doesn't take it personally.

She views humans and Panem literally as her laboratory and she takes her role as Game-Maker very seriously, but she's not pompous about it. She's a lot like Heavensbee in the sense they're both cunning, cold calculators... but Dr. Gaul takes it up another notch and isn't afraid of using innocent humans for her own research ends, and punishing people? A breeze. I think she doesn't regard humans as anything other than hairless apes she can do her research on. She reminds me of a certain doctor during WWII...

She's not driven by anger, hate, vengeance, pride... I'm not sure what drives her to do the things she does... it could be power? But I think it's a kind of undiluted, twisted, sick curiosity of how things work and how far she can push the limits, how much she can play to be a God before she breaks it... and part of the reason she needs to retain power is to keep the resources to continue pushing the limits of biology to satisfy her morbid curiosity... If there's a portrayal of psycopathy that isn't over the top, clownish, but has flair and is quite interesting that's Dr. Gaul.

I think she's responsible for the... feel of the Capitol in THG books and movies, that fakeness, plastic, unnatural coldness of it that puts Katniss off so much. It's like she created a psycopathic ENVIRONMENT, no empathy, no compassion, no feelings...

Re-watching and re-reading the saga I can see Dr. Gaul's trademark in a ton of things... and that's why I think she's the scariest villain... She bred a whole host of psychopaths that don't know they act psychopathic and are so vapid and shallow they can be pupeteered to do anything the people in power want... The Capitol was her largest experiment and her biggest success...

P.S. All my respect to Viola Davis... she's embodied a character that will probably mark the way villains are seen after this. I love her range and mastery of acting so so much.