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Viola Davis Talks Lack Of Black Hair Care Professionals In Hollywood
As WE do what needs to be done to increase diversity in film and television, there continues to be an extreme lack of melanin behind the scenes. Viola Davis, for one, isn’t entertaining Hollywood’s incompetence.
In a recent interview with Ebony, the Academy Award-winning actress said she specifically hires beauticians who know how to do Black hair. When asked about dealing with the lack of hair care professionals who can cater to Black women in Hollywood, she shouted out her stylist and said she doesn’t depend on others to get her tresses right.
“That has not been my narrative, lately, in terms of hair because I refuse it. I reject it… I don’t think that people understand our hair…they don’t understand that we’re different, but yet, the same. What I find is hair is something that a lot of people don’t honor when you do film,” Davis explained, adding that she hires HER OWN stylists to make sure her hair is done properly.
Watch her speak on the issue below.
She also gets into what she meant when she said “regular Black women” are what’s missing from film.