When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, it was the high point of a years-long push to make “The Woman King.” “It was sort of metaphoric to not just everything I had done to prepare for this role but everything that I had done as a Black woman to prepare for this moment,” Davis says. “Which is to be a warrior.”
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