In a searing judgment of a major Hollywood film, Viola Davis said in a new interview with Vanity Fair that she regrets the role she played in “The Help,” the 2011 film that was nominated for an Academy Award but that she said was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism.”
“There’s no one who’s not entertained by ‘The Help,’” she told the magazine in a cover story. “But there’s a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn’t ready to (tell the whole truth).”