Like her previous conversations, Oprah’s interview with Davis is raw and emotional, with much of the special focused on devastating details of Davis’s childhood
Photo: Netflix On Friday, Netflix released Oprah’s exclusive interview with actress and soon-to-be author Viola Davis. In their intimate conversation, Davis talked about her forthcoming memoir, Finding Me, which comes out April 26, delving into some of the stories she shares in the book.
Davis joins Adele, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle as the latest subject in a series of high-profile interviews Oprah has done over the past year. . Here, some of the biggest takeaways from the conversation between Oprah and Davis.“I believe I was having a bad existential crisis,” Davis said, adding that at the time, she was struggling to find connection with the rest of the world and meaning in her life.
Davis explained how she expected the level of fame she’d achieved to bring her joy and satisfaction, “like Cinderella when Prince Charming comes in.” However, she said, “that didn’t happen.” Instead, she felt “exhaustion” and the pressure of people seeing her as a “commodity.” So, she said, she asked herself, “What’s home to you, and how do you get at it?” When she wasn’t able to answer that for herself, “the only thing I could think to do was to go back to the beginning of my story.
Eventually, Davis said she came to a crossroads while processing her past in therapy. She realized “you can stay there and be swallowed or you can move on. I choose to move on.”Fourteen was a pivotal age for Davis. That year, she won a major art contest, spurring her ambitions to pursue acting: “I realized I really wanted out, and I saw a way out.” When she was younger, Davis said, she thought she was “cursed.
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