Viola Davis's Urgent Call to 'Exhume the Ordinary'
The <em>Fences</em> Best Supporting Actress testified to art’s ability to tell the stories of regular people.
Viola Davis’s acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress began with a thanks to the Academy and this observation: “You know, there’s one place that all the people with the greatest potential are gathered.”
Pause. Some viewers may have felt a queasy pang. Was the actress about to give a sequel to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech? Was the next line going to be “this
