‘The Help’s’ Octavia Spencer & Viola Davis Share Oscar Morning Plans
‘The Help’s’ Octavia Spencer & Viola Davis Share Oscar Morning Plans | Access Hollywood - Celebrity News, Photos & Videos
First Published: February 25, 2012 7:09 PM EST
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- CaptionViola Davis and Octavia Spencer could be going home with Oscar statues come Sunday for their respective roles in “The Help,” and both ladies are attempting to stay calm as the clock ticks down to Hollywood’s most prestigious awards show.
“There’s a lot of jitters,” Viola told Access Hollywood at the Fifth Annual Women in Hollywood Pre-Oscar Party in Los Angeles on Friday.
Viola is taking the hype surrounding her moving portrayal of Aibileen Clark in stride and told Access she plans to stay focused on the bigger picture to keep her nerves at bay on Sunday morning.
“I pray. I pray and I meditate to remind me of my larger purpose in life,” she said. “It’s like they say, when you’re driving and you have blind focus, that’s when you get in accidents more.
“It’s the same thing with life,” she continued. “When you have blind focus on that gold statue [it] can get you into such a wreck in terms of your larger purpose in life. So, I pray.”
Viola’s “The Help” co-star and real-life friend Octavia Spencer said she’s “tired” from the award season, but still plans to get to get some exercise in to release stress before the big show.
“I’m gonna probably meet Viola and her husband for a workout, then have a big breakfast and then just let the day happen,” she told Access. “You have to see [the Oscars] as [just a normal day], but enjoy the entire day.
“You can’t make it something different than what it is, because if it doesn’t work out, you put energy that you can’t get back,” she added.
The 84th Academy Awards air on Sunday at 7 ET/4 PT on ABC.
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I love them but I hope they both lose. Sick of black women being rewarded only for stereotypes. And this is the second damn time Viola has been awarded for playing a downtrodden unattractive maid.
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I really hope she wins. First, because her performance is actually better than Viola's. And two, because I can't stand to see a black woman winning for playing a damn maid again, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel did the same thing. All these years later and we still playing "yessa ma'am!" maids to get Oscars. That shit is pathetic and sets us back.
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Funny, but these two do NOT go together. LMAO!
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The Oscars have always nominated/rewarded minorities with the ultimate reward for stereotypical roles, with few exception.
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball (loose, Jezebel woman)
Denzel Washington - Training Day (brutish, thuggish cop); Glory (slave)
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy (illiterate driver to Southern white woman)
Mo'Nique - Precious (welfare queen)
Hattie McDaniel - GWTW (maid)
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost (sassy psychic)
Oprah - The Color Purple (Do I even need to bother...?)
The few exceptions are biographical movies: Will Smith (Ali), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Jamie Foxx (Ray), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
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Mixed reactions. We all want more black women to become Oscar winners, I just wish it was for different types of roles.
I will say if Viola loses, and I doubt she will, it's going to be hard as hell for a black woman to win a lead Oscar considering the fact that, controversy aside, The Help was seen by more people than the films of the other 4 nominees. That's always a big plus for any lead nominee. If it couldn't help the highly respected thespian and 2-time nominee Viola then I'll be damned.
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