Toilet etiquette went down the drain the day Viola Davis discovered herself face-to-face with Meryl Streep.
The 2 powerhouse actors first labored collectively on the 2008 thriller “Doubt,” and through their time on set, Davis recalled being “absolutely overwhelmed” to be performing alongside Streep. The nerves, it appears, didn’t cease on set — however adopted Davis straight to the restroom.
Showing on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” on Thursday, Davis recounted a moderately unfiltered second that also makes her cringe.
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“She went to the bathroom during rehearsal and I followed her,” Davis confessed. “I waited for her to come out the stall and I went into the same stall as her, just to smell her.”
Actor Anthony Anderson, seated alongside Davis, responding with a convincing “wow,” which was a warranted response to this story.
“I was super creepy y’all,” Davis admitted with a slight chuckle, earlier than doubling down on her admiration for the legendary actor.
Practically a decade later, on the 2017 Golden Globes, the 2 reunited. Davis took the stage to current Streep with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award and once more mirrored on their time collectively throughout “Doubt.”
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“Every day my husband would call me at night and say, ‘Did you tell her how much she means to you?’ and I’d say, ‘No, I can’t say anything, Julius. I’m just nervous. All I do is stare at her all the time,’” Davis remembered.
However she concluded her speech by lastly chatting with Streep from the center, and she or he didn’t maintain again.
“You make me proud to be an artist. You make me feel that what I have in me — my body, my face, my age — is enough,” she shared. “You encapsulate that great Emile Zola quote that, if you ask me as an artist what I came into this world to do, I, an artist, would say, I came to live out loud.”
