Viola Davis reveals that the director of "Widows" convinced her to wear her natural hair in Heist Thriller

We should all thank the director of "12 Years A Slave", Steve McQueen, for seeing such magic on the screen.

When the public sees for the first time an award-winning actress, Viola Davis, at Widows, the next film thriller where she plays Liam Neeson, her husband on the screen, she passionately burns to bed.

His natural hair 4-C occupy most of the mount. It's beautiful. It's angelic. We have never seen before in theaters.

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But Davis, who has often defended black women as authentically what they were in Hollywood and beyond, admitted that he had even had the conviction to go natural during Widowsoutside friday.

In fact, it's Steve McQueen, an Oscar-winning director, who convinced her to represent Veronica, a widow who must convince three other widows to carry out a job that their criminal husbands could not end up with huge debt.

Widows, which also stars Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry, takes place in the modern city of Chicago amid strong political and racial tensions.

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Last month, Davis told ESSENCE that prior to the production of the film, she phoned McQueen to try to convince him that she would wear short armor and even a long wig for her scenes.

Then he recalls two minutes later and says, "Why do not you wear your natural hair? "I said," Well, that can not happen. "It's like" Why? "I said," It's a beauty Steve. You do not understand America, Steve.

Davis recalled that McQueen "is angry" with his generalization.

McQueen finally told Davis, "This is a [real] wife. I see her all the time at airports when I travel with her tall, handsome Irish husband. It just was not seen in American cinema, so it's time we presented it. "

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