Viola Davis revealed a racist and demoralizing interaction she once had with a director during the Women in Motion conversation with Variety’s Elizabeth Wagmeister at the Cannes Film Festival this week. She admitted that a director once called her by his maid’s name.
“He said, ‘Louise!’ I knew him for 10 years and he called me Louise and I find out that it’s because his maid’s name is Louise,” Davis said. “I was maybe around 30 at the time, so it was a while ago. But what you have to realize is that those micro-aggressions happen all the time.”
