“…Getting nominated for the Oscar and winning the New York Film Critics Circle and some others — I can’t tell you how amazing that was. You want to talk about elation. To this day, it’s still surreal. You know, way back in the middle of my huge, dark hiatus, which people didn’t think was a hiatus, people would ask me, “Are you bitter towards Hollywood?”…”

Viola Davis shows everything, in her character-restraining way of showing practically nothing.
She is calm, and direct, and holds back with the dignity of a black woman who is confronted, unexpectedly; and yet is able to maintain composure. All the while, letting us, the audience, get a sense of her whole life. All the burdens she experiences.

Subtitle of this post could be: “I’m MRS. Norman Maine”… See the film clip, at end of this Oscar Prep post.