Later, after Davis had won another Tony for a revival of Fences and an Academy Award for its movie adaptation, she credited Wilson for convincing her that she was beautiful. “He would always say, ‘Viola, you are just so beautiful,’ ” she said during a 60 Minutes interview in 2020. “I never felt feminine. I never felt like I could fit into that sort of confines of what it meant, or the stereotypical ways of what being a woman was about until I did Seven Guitars.”
