Actor Viola Davis recently revealed a racist encounter she had with a director who called her by his maid's name.
On Thursday, Variety reported that during the Kering Women in Motion conversation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Davis recounted how a male director repeatedly misidentified her.
"I knew him for 10 years and he called me Louise, and I find out that it's because his maid's name is Louise," Davis said, without disclosing the director's name. "I was maybe around 30 at the time, so it was a while ago. But what you have to realize is that those microaggressions happen all the time."
