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ESSENCE senior entertainment editor Joi-Marie McKenzie sits down with Viola Davis to dish about her wearing her natural hair on the big-screen for "Widows."
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00:00I loved seeing that scene with just your natural four-seat hair.
00:04Was that like a conversation that you had?
00:06Yeah, tell me about that.
00:07With Steve, who is the most beautiful man in the world, I'm telling you.
00:13He's warm, he's all of that.
00:15When he is on the phone, however, he can be abrupt.
00:19We had a whole conversation about hair, and I mean, I was going, I had my monologue going.
00:24Okay, Steve, so I'm going to have this short wig in the beginning,
00:26and then I'm going to take that wig off, and then I'm going to wear my natural hair for just a couple of scenes,
00:30and then I think I should have a long wig, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:34And he's going, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:37And we said, okay, and we said goodbye, he hung up.
00:41Then he calls back, two minutes later, he says, why don't you wear your natural hair?
00:46I said, well, that can't happen.
00:48He's like, why?
00:49I said, because it's a beauty thing, Steve.
00:52You don't understand America, Steve.
00:55You know, and then he got mad.
00:58He said, I don't want to have this conversation anymore.
01:01I don't want to have it.
01:02This is a woman.
01:03I see her all the time in airports when I'm traveling with her tall, Irish, handsome husband.
01:09She just hasn't been seen in the American cinema, so it's about time we reintroduced her.
01:14So that's it.
01:15Bam, and he hung up the phone.
01:16So that was it.
01:17I called my manager.
01:18I said, well, I think I'm wearing my natural hair.
01:20I said, well, you know, I hope so.
01:21I love myจ.
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