r/Oscars • u/First-Loss-8540 • 1d ago

Viola Davis Did an Action Movie Because Not ‘Every Movie You Do Has to Be Considered for an Academy Award. I Want to Do Something Popular’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/viola-davis-defends-g20-action-movie-role-1236359110/
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u/jordankch 1d ago

And that is what makes her a living legend.

Not everything you do needs to be BP material. Not everything you do needs to be an Academy Award nominated movie. Not everything you do needs to be the next Citizen Kane.

While I do admire actors like Leo and DDL who strive to work with the best and only the best, but actors like Viola, ScarJo, and even Mark Ruffalo know that it's okay to have fun every now and then.

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u/nicely-nicely 1d ago

She’s wonderful as Amanda Waller, looking forward to seeing more of her in James Gunn’s DCU

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u/vonnegutsbutthole 1d ago

The Woman King was pretty fun

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u/pkfreeze175 1d ago

She's such an amazing actress with a lot of versatility and presence in her roles .

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u/Important-Purchase-5 1d ago

Yeah you can have fun and get the bag sometimes. 

Props to Leo for that. 

Hell even Denzel did Equalizer movies sometimes you can take a break have fun and get the bag. 

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 1d ago

Denzel does a ton of corny blockbusters and they’re usually great

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u/Important-Purchase-5 1d ago

I mean Gladiator II I can’t remember him doing another blockbuster. 

Like are Training Day & Remember the Titans blockbusters? 

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 1d ago

Safe house, Pelham 123, 2 guns, John q, siege, man on fire… should I go on?

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u/Important-Purchase-5 1d ago

You know what forget about Man on Fire never seen the others. 

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 1d ago edited 7h ago

Dudes had a long career, if you take a look at his filmography he has had a ton of run of the mill blockbusters like that.

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u/Important-Purchase-5 1d ago

I know in an interview he was like he did lot of bad movies in 90s he regrets but he got paid and couldn't been picky. Not every movie gonna be Malcom X or Philadelphia 

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u/BeautifulLeather6671 1d ago

Na not necessarily bad, just corny and I can guarantee he doesn’t regret the checks.

And all the ones I mentioned were in the 2000s/2010s. He likes doing both, nothing wrong with that.

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u/jshamwow 1d ago

Yeah and people who don't understand this are probably not very smart//grossly misunderstand the industry

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u/GTKPR89 1d ago

Where do we fall on Widows? Should it have been a bigger, crowd-pleasing, awardsy success, as I know some people feel, or was it too grim to be capery fun/too capery to be grim thrills?

I like it a lot, but get why it didn't have a place to land.

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u/johnmichael-kane 23h ago

Tho is what I’ve been saying every time I see people in this sub talk about actors needing to choose better movies to raise their profile and improve their Oscar chances.

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u/Responsible_Oil_5811 1d ago

I think she should make exactly the kinds of movies she wants to make.