One day, on the set of the movie Suicide Squad, the actor Will Smith went up to Viola Davis and asked her who she was. She didn’t quite get the question, so Smith clarified: “Look, I’m always going to be that fifteen-year-old boy whose girlfriend broke up with him. That’s always going to be me. So, who are you?” Davis replied, “I’m the little girl who would run after school every day in third grade because these boys hated me because I was…not pretty. Because I was…Black.”
