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People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in Fences] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

Viola Davis

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Viola Davis
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 11
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