Viola Davis Talks Getting One Step Nearer to an EGOT With Her Grammy Nomination (Unique)

Viola Davis may very effectively be the following EGOT recipient. ET’s Will Marfuggi spoke with Davis on the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ thirteenth Governors Awards in Los Angeles, California, over the weekend, the place she spoke about her Grammy nomination and what it might imply to attain EGOT standing.

“Felt fairly good,” “The Lady King” actress stated about incomes a Grammy nom for her self-narrated audiobook, Discovering Me: A Memoir.”

Davis has already gained an Oscar for Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Supporting Position for “Fences”, an Emmy for Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence for “Find out how to Get Away With Homicide” and two Tonys for “King Hedley II” and the Broadway manufacturing of “Fences”, making the Grammy win the one factor standing between her and that coveted title.

“It’s a surreal title to have, and I thought of it, and I assumed to myself, ‘If I obtain that, I’ll take myself out to dinner.’”

“And you realize, I don’t rejoice my wins,” she added, “however I’d rejoice that win.”

Whereas not large on celebrating her personal wins, Davis was all in for celebrating a win for a colleague, Michael J. Fox, who was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award throughout Saturday’s celebration.

“I keep in mind in, you realize, it was ‘Household Ties’,” Davis stated of the primary time she noticed Fox onscreen. “That was it. He was the factor — he humanized form of that conservative tight man, after which ‘Again to the Future’. However then as soon as he obtained Parkinson’s, he was elevated to a different stage of heroism.”

Subsequent up for Davis, a job as Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul in “The Starvation Video games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”. As for what she may tease in regards to the movie, Davis merely stated, “It’s coming,”

“I can’t let you know nothing, completely nothing,” she maintained. “You wait until you see it although. It’s coming.”

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