No money and the freezing cold meant laundry would often go unwashed for weeks. 'A darkness arose within me': Will Smith writes of abusive dad, wanting to 'avenge' his mom Here’s what we learned about Davis reading her memoir. Yet, sitting there conversing with Will Smith, I was still that little, terrified, third-grade Black girl.” So, who are you?”ĭavis writes, “There I was, a working actress with steady gigs, Broadway credits, multiple industry awards, and a reputation of bringing professionalism and excellence to any project. “Look, I’m always going to be that 15-year-old boy whose girlfriend broke up with him,” Smith told her. She writes of an “aha” moment she had decades later talking with co-star Will Smith on the set of “Suicide Squad” when the actor asked her, “Viola, who are you?” When she ran from them, she felt like she was running for her life. In the beginning, she recalls how in the third grade “eight or nine white boys in my class made it their daily, end-of-school ritual to chase me like dogs hunting prey.” They would throw things – pine cones, rocks, even bricks – and call her names and racial slurs.
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