When Viola Davis first read Kathryn Stockett’s novel “The Help,” she saw a movie in her head ?– and thought she might be the first to bring it to the screen. “I told my husband (actor Julius Tennon), ‘We’re going to option this book!,’ ” Davis said. “We’re going to produce it, and I’m going to employ all these black actresses, and I’m just going to put it on the map! I just had this idea that I was going to be the savior of women of color in Hollywood. And then I found out that Tate Taylor had the rights to the book, and the movie was already kind of in the works,” she said, laughing.
You sense that Davis, a charming and informal voice on the other end of a telephone last week, laughs frequently.
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