This was the monologue that I was suggested to do for an audition. Not knocking my favorite actress out the park but her performance always inspire me. Got my own spin on it. Wish me luck
That’s why we’re always advised not to watch the scenes but just understand the story, scenery and act on your terms and emotions. You give it your own spin without having that overwhelming feeling on your conscious. Lol
It has been officially announced that Denzel Washington will be directing, and starring in a film adaptation of Fences alongside Viola Davis! Guys, she may finally get her Oscar!!
This was the first time I saw Viola Davis work. She completely knocked me out. I cannot watch this without completely losing it. Please be aware, that since this was the Tony awards, she had to show up ready to do this scene. No warming up with the previous scene. She is an amazing talent.
Viola Davis is one of the greatest actors of all time. My goodness, she is amazing. Just speechless watching her here. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to see this live.
It's such an American kinda thing. Especially in theatres. Here in London, no one would ever dare interrupting a scene like that, nor a song like "I'm here" from The Colour Purple. It's nice to hear such a voiced level of warmth, but the theatre is not a fucking Beyonce concert. Being respectful is the most important thing. I can't imagine how difficult it must be when you're acting the shit out of the most emotional scene in the play and the audience drags you out of your character.
When I saw this movie and saw this scene, I started shaking, the tears started streaming down my face, I uttered "WOW" and I knew, in all my heart, that Viola was going to win the Oscar. I am almost 50 and I think this is the MOST powerful acting scene I have ever scene and might ever see.
@@yuothineyesasian Is it disrespectful to sing and dance during a concert? The musician is there to share their music, so why would they be angry that you're feeling it? So why would it be disrespectful to feel and respond to emotions when that's what the actors are giving you? I'm pretty sure many stage actors would agree that this sort of audience focus and involvement is a wonderful connected experience. If I'm up there putting my emotions on display for the benefit of others, why would I feel disrespected when they're directly giving me positive feedback letting me know they're empathizing with my performance?
@@yuothineyesasian OMG I didn't realize I was talking with someone who had the authority to speak for the entire craft of acting! My bad. And here I was just thinking you were pedantic. Silly me. Must have been hard to go and interview every actor and get a consensus. Props for that. I'm sure some actors agree and some don't, thus this pointless argument. I would prefer having audience response, maybe you wouldn't. And neither way matters at all.
I been standing with you! I been right here with you,Troy. I got a life too. I gave 18 years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I ever wanted other things? Don’t you think I had hopes and dreams? What about my life? What about me? Don’t you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who’s got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams…and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and waited and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn’t take me no 18 years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn’t never gonna bloom. But I held on to you, Troy, I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you. And upstairs in that room…with the darkness falling in on me…I gave everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn’t the finest man in the world, and wherever you was going…I wanted to be there with you. Cause you was my husband. Cause that’s the only way I was gonna survive as your wife. You always talking about what you give…and what you don’t have to give. But you take too. You take…and don’t even know nobody’s giving!
I was researching viola for her role in how to get away with murder and I saw that she was in this play. just so happened that I finished this play in English yesterday! her role in this play just supports the fact that viola is so talented... amazing job viola 😭👏🏼💜
We won't have to ask or wait any longer, because this year on Feb 26, 2017 Mrs.Davis will finally win and take home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Fences". Mark my words.
+JOEY AVALOS CORRECTION!!! Award an amazingly talented actress with an Oscar, for her powerful portrayal of a strong complex female character. A character in which all women can relate to. The Oscars award individuals based on performance not appearance.
im color blind when it comes to talent, if i saw colors, i would have seen a white man getting and oscar for playing a white man in the case of leo....just shut up!
WOW! She even played Denzel against the wall, what a beast of an actress. Great work Viola Davis. And by the way , it doesnt matter if she doesnt win this shitty Oscar thing, as long as she gets hired for the good roles the next ten years and pay her well, I´m fine.
And then she won the Oscar. The industry desires exactly what she demonstrated on that stage that day. Commitment to the art and the desire to tell humanity's story in all its beauty and ugliness.
Not saying she was outshined, i'm saying I wish there was more screen time for her. It was too much Denzel and not enough of Viola. Viola Davis did like an eight min performance and Doubt and she totally stole the whole movie. Actually, she was in a scene with Meryl Streep and it was like Streep didn't even exist in that moment.
Not to say Denzel is selfish, but I mean... he did direct the movie adaptation, possibly why he focused the story more on his character? But acting wise, he was nothing in comparison to Viola
What an amazing performance by Viola Davis. After watching the movie I had to see some of the scenes from the play itself and she's as brilliant here as the movie.
Yes. I love it! You are the best---Both of you! I swear this is the best mono,logue from Fences---No-one's better. I hope I do this good for my audition for Duke!
My school just did a staged reading of this and it makes me appreciate my peers and the theatre we put on because when I tell you out Troy and out Rose were up to par with some professional theatre I am not being generous. There is so much talent all over and in the tiniest places and to be able to compare our tiny theatre with something of this caliber and have it stand on its own two feet is something amazing to be able to say.
And how different her performance in the movie is, yet equally great. I don't know anyone else in her generation (or, god forbid, younger) who is on this level.
Denzel, a legend!!! From 📺's St Elsewhere to current, Mr. Washington is embedded in our ❤s!!!! Mrs. Davis has been well on her way with every script, she has touched. From Grace Glory 98, Jessie Stone, 2005, to Antwone Fisher, 2002, just to name a few. Ms. Viola is one of the best actresses to ever hit any sceen!!!!!! What an explosive duo, to have Denzel/Viola on stage!!!!!!!
Acting for the stage is different than acting for movies or television. The actor has to deliver his or her lines so that the entire audience can hear and receive the impact, even if they are in the very back of the theater. It's an interesting exercise to look at clips from a stage production that has been made into a motion picture to see the differences, especially in a case like this where you have the same actors from the stage production playing the same parts in the movie.
Oh my goodness I didn't know this was in theatre too. I'm in London UK and only got the chance to watch the movie. This is amazing thank you Denzel and Viola you are awesomely awesome... ALWAYS!!!
This movie role was one of the most complex emotion role Viola Davis have ever played. You've to be an experience actress to take on a role as this. One of the best acting I've ever seen in the (movie version.)
It's the diction. The bodily commitment to character. The fixation of the eyes on character. The choices in pattern in text. Viola Davis' commitment to Acting is that of the Titans. Annalise Keating was borne of greatness.
When an arbitrary scene in a play brings you to tears and makes you think about ur childhood, growing up, wverything you saw growing up, it suddenly isn’t just a scene in a play anymore but so much more than that
Thats what audiences do. Its not the movies. You’re seeing it in your face. If you can sit completely silent in a scene like this it isn’t good enough.
My fave scene line on level with my only other fave scene and line that’s the colour purple when she leaves in the truck saying “Everything You've Done to Me, Already Done To You” 🎉
