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Article: Viola Davis: it only takes one memorable scene for awards buzz to reach palpable levels.(Supporting Actress)(Interview)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- December 10, 2008
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Viola Davis may be new to movie audiences, bur she was hardly a tyro when she landed the role of Mrs. Muller in "Doubt." Davis arrived on set with a Tony Award in hand (for "King Headley II") and critical applause for her role in "Antwone Fisher."
Even so, she says, she was "scared as hell" when she learned she'd won the role she calls her "big break."
"Forty-five minutes after that, I get a call that I have a rehearsal tomorrow afternoon with Meryl. Yeah, it made my ass tight, because I felt like I didn't have the character yet," she recalls.
"Then you feel all the things you always feel, but you never say ...