Posted on 12/18/2020 9:38:11 PM PST by simpson96
Viola Davis is thrilled to be playing Michelle Obama in the upcoming Showtime anthology series First Ladies, but says she had some trepidation.
The How to Get Away With Murder star dropped by The Graham Norton Show for an episode that will air on Dec. 25, where she opened up about playing the former first lady.
"People love Michelle Obama," Davis told Norton. "They feel like they know her, they own her — and they do not want anything that is negative to touch her."
As an actress, Davis said she delights in looking for the "mess" when it comes to playing a character, so she knew it would be a challenge. "How am I going to do that with Michelle Obama?" she asked, laughing.
Davis said the former first lady gave her blessing for the project role. "Listen, everything you think, feel, see with Michelle Obama is all that she is," Davis said. "We know that. But I always say, 'You can talk to my husband, you can talk to my daughter, you can talk to my mom about me' — if someone were going to play me in a biopic — 'but you would still only know 40 or 50 percent of me.'"
She continued, "You're not going to know some deep, dark secret that I don't even share with the people who are closest to me. And it's all that info that you gather as an actor to create another human being," she said, jokingly adding, "So, now I got Michelle Obama — What do I do with that?"
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Lp What does she do with that? Put on a fake pecker and an unending scowl and a loathing of people who she can never be one of.
People “do not want anything that is negative to touch her.”. So what of Ministry of Democrat Propaganda, the MSM, will do is suppress anything that tells the truth about her.
And a lot of people don’t. Joan Rivers was not available for comment. ☝️
Michelle is a tranny dickhead
Sounds like a real pukefest.
Nothing hides that huge rear end, the rolls or her hatred.
Will she wear a prosthetic device between her legs like Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights?
Viola, you ain’t man enough to play her, him, uh, her.
Yikes!
Wayne Brady
Terrible movie with three of my favorite actors. The Swayze monster, Passenger 57, and General Zod.
Funny, a lot of us detest Big Mike.
May I suggest SNL's Leslie Jones instead?
Yes, and she's a powerful actress to boot.
Accuracy check, deployed.
Why the pic with Kevin Hart?
I guess I would have went more with Kerry Washington but to each his own.
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