Viola Davis says she regrets her role in helping

Viola Davis Aibileen Clark was rewarded for her maid role in the 2011 drama L & # 39; s help. But if the actress was offered the same role today, she could refuse it.

In a recent Q & A with The New York TimesDavis revealed that she had "spent a lot of roles" over the years, but few people complained. "There was one or two that I regretted maybe a minute, and then I dropped them," said the actress, who then climbs into the drama. widows. "As I get older, I pass on roles because of my experience knowing that once the film is out, I will have to promote it. And I do not want to promote anything that I do not believe in. "

"Almost a better question is, have I ever done roles that I've regretted?" L & # 39; s help is on this list, "she said, perhaps surprising her fans. But not in terms of experience and people involved because they were all excellent. The friendships I've formed are the ones I'm going to have for the rest of my life. I have had great experience with these other actresses, who are extraordinary human beings. And I could not ask for a better collaborator than Tate Taylor. "

It is true that Davis stayed close to the co-stars Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone. Last year, in fact, Spencer said that she had spent the morning of Golden Globes soak in the Davis hot tub before hitting the red carpet. So why does Davis regret her role in L & # 39; s help, adapted from Kathryn Stockettthe novel of the same name? "I just felt that at the end of the day it was not the voices of the maids that had been heard.I know Aibileen.I know Minny.I'm my mother. Grandmother, that's my mother, "-old said," And I know that if you make a movie where everything is the premise, I want to know what it's like to work for whites and raise children in 1963, I want to know what you really think about it, I've never heard that in the movie. "

Davis has expressed similar concerns before.

Last year, at an event organized by the British Academy of Film and Television, Davis explained why she had directed the film. "I knew it was a successful book and I knew it would change my career – that's what I knew," she recalls. "I thought it was an important story, but I had a lot of problems with L & # 39; s help. "

For example, the actress liked that Stone's character want to write a story from the maid's point of view about what it's like to work for white women. "I do not think it's from our point of view, it's the problem I had with that," she said. "And I had it from the beginning."

On the one hand, she said: "The anger, vitriol and hatred that they would have towards these white women would have been vocalized.You did not see anything of it!" You saw Minny put the st in the magpie, but it was comical in nature, so it's a pill easier to swallow, these black women would hate these women, but I think that one of the reasons for success of this film is that many mothers, these maids.I think they have not been shown to be messy because no one wants to stain this memory of that black woman who loved them – probably more than that their mothers loved, they want to keep them pure, too many important scenes were cut off from the final film, she said, which would have done justice to the characters. "By the time he gets to the screen, the truth is so filtered, and then you feel very comfortable, "she said. As storytellers, "it is not our job to make you feel comfortable. This is really not the case, "she said." If you feel comfortable, then it's your trip and your cross to wear. It's the beauty of art. The beauty of art is that we give it to you, you receive it, and if you change from We did our job. "