CAIRO Sept 5 (SEE): American actress Viola Davis spent many years supporting women's rights and now she hopes to put an end for the problems of racism and sexism in Hollywood.
Viola Davis is the first black actress to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award. Below is her speech in Oscars last year:
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Davis who changed the way black women are portrayed in movies, decided to wear her Afro natural hair on the cover of Variety magazine's latest issue. She also embraced her natural beauty this year on the red carpet at the Golden Globes.
Hollywood always pressures women to change their natural appearance, but she is expected to appear with her natural hair in a new role in Steve McQueen's new movie Widows.
"You're always taught as a person of colour to not like your hair. The kinkier it is, the so-called nappier it is, the uglier it is. We're into a zeitgeist where people are fighting for their space to be seen. People have to know that there are different types of women of colour. We're not all Foxy Brown. We're not all brown or light-skinned beauties with a big Afro. We have the girl next door. We have the older, dark-skinned, natural-haired woman;" Davis said.
In her latest interview with Variety magazine, she talked openly and courageously about how black women are portrayed in movies and the pay gap between women of colour and white actresses in the film industry.
"There are no percentages to show the difference. It's vast. Hispanic women, Asian women, black women, we don't get paid what Caucasian women get paid. We just don't . We have the talent. It's the opportunity that we're lacking," she spoke to the magazine.
"We're not even invited to the table. I go to a lot of women's events here in Hollywood, and they're filled with female CEOs, producers and executives, but I'm one of maybe five or six people of colour in the room," she added.
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