Viola Davis says streaming services are low on diversity

Streaming services have opened a door to long -closed communities out of Hollywood, Oscar winner Viola Davis on Thursday told the Cannes Film Festival, but there is still more imagination around black roles.

56 -year -old Davis, currently acting as Michelle Obama in the television series "The First Lady", even his groundbreaking show "How to Gate Ave Murder" admitted that black women in entertainment in entertainment Only delicate speed was produced.

"I know when I left 'how to go away with murder'-I do not see a lot of dark-half-bound women in the big roles in TV, not even in streaming services," Said about the show that made her who made her Amy first black lead actress to win.

Even with the case of a trophy filled with awards, she said she was still held back by a limited fantasy of the industry, which could play a courageous role.

Davis said, "If I wanted to play the role of a mother, whose son ... was a member of a gang, who died in a drive-by-shoot, I can get it," Davis said.

"If I play the role of a woman who was looking at the age of 56 to fly well with five men and to make herself again, then I am getting a difficult time, even A Viola is also pushing as a davis because people can do 'T cover blackness with spiritual awakening and sexuality - this is too much. "

- 'You have to fight' -

Netflix, Long was seen as more diverse entertainment and champions of artists, recently reported damage to customers for the first time in more than a decade.

Sad news launched a round of trimming and cuts in spending.

A 2021 study of Netflix materials showed that 52 percent of its series and films played and one of the three of the three painted groups - one of the more than the entertainment released in theaters.

Davis won an Academy Award in 2017 for Best Supporting Actress for "fans" unlike Denjel Washington and received three more nominations as the best actress in "Ma Renny's Black Bottom", who received Netflix after a brief dramatic release Went on

Davis told a kerning women at the top film festival in the world, "I see that there is more - there are more because there are 400 shows and streaming services."

"But in the context of storytelling who is an extension as someone's imagination, this is not happening yet ... you will really have to fight for those stories."

- Rejection 'Dard' -

Davis on Wednesday attended the Tom Cruise Flick "Top Gun: Mavric", which was attended by the 1986 blockbuster sequel, her husband, actor Julius Tenon.

The couple has a film and television production company, Juvei, in which they said that they established in response to sexism, racism and their anger on color - discrimination due to dark skin - discrimination - despite the success of decades in Hollywood .

"It hurts when people reject you," he said.

"When people said that I was not enough for a role - it actually gets on my shameless veins, it breaks my heart, and it makes me angry."

She said that a director whom she had known for a decade, once called her on the sets, she had learned that she was her maid's name.

With my own company, "I can do what I want to do. It was my response to that rejection."