Viola’s movie ‘at the right time, in the right zeitgeist’

Viola Davis plays a woman who brings together a group of women to pull off a heist after the deaths of their criminal husbands in ‘Widows’. She tells Laura Harding why this kind of film is so important.

It’s been almost two years since Viola Davis won her first Oscar. Up on stage in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars, clutching the long skirt of her bright red dress in the same hand as her gold statue, she described why she became an actress, saying it is the only profession that celebrates “what it means to live a life”.