The actress said she believes the film did not do justice to the stories of its black characters<\/b>
\nViola Davis might have gotten an Oscar nomination for 2012’s \u00ab\u00a0The Help,\u00a0\u00bb but she says she regrets her role in the film. During a new interview with the New York Times, she admitted that she believes the film did not do justice to the stories of its black characters.
\u00ab\u00a0Have I ever done roles that I’ve regretted? I have, and ‘The Help’ is on that list,\u00a0\u00bb Viola Davis told the New York Times on Tuesday. She said that as a role model for women of color, she feels extra pressure to guide others.
\u00ab\u00a0Being that role model and picking up that baton when you’re struggling in your own life has been difficult,\u00a0\u00bb she said. She discussed the criticism that \u00ab\u00a0The Help\u00a0\u00bb glorified white women for easing racial tensions instead of focusing praise on the black characters, like Davis’ character, Aibileen, who is a maid.
Davis agreed that the maid characters in the film should have received more recognition.
\u00ab\u00a0I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,\u00a0\u00bb she said. \u00ab\u00a0I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie.\u00a0\u00bb
She did add, however, that she enjoyed working with her colleagues from the film.
\u00ab\u00a0The friendships that I formed are ones that I’m going to have for the rest of my life,\u00a0\u00bb she said. \u00ab\u00a0I had a great experience with these other actresses, who are extraordinary human beings. And I could not ask for a better collaborator than [director] Tate Taylor.\u00a0\u00bb
In 2016, Davis told Lee Cowan on \u00ab\u00a0CBS Sunday Morning\u00a0\u00bb that it’s been a difficult road finding the right roles.
\u00ab\u00a0I have a deep voice. I probably have the ‘character look’; I am a woman of a certain hue. Those roles, those kind of diverse roles weren’t being written for anyone who looked like me,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n

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