Actress Viola Davis looks stunning in a new cover shoot for Elle Brasil's September issue.
The 57-year old Academy Award winner has been captured beautifully in a series of shots by photographers Marcos Florentino and Kelvin Yule, who make up MAR+VIN.
The front cover itself in black and white sees Viola don an avant-garde sculptured hat by Cecilio Leather Designs, whilst in a second image she radiates confidence in a cream fashion-forward dress by Loewe, with her hands clasped behind her back.
The shoot went down on a storm on social media with one Twitter user commenting: "WOW!!!! I actually got chills! It's awesome to see someone who knows how to shoot darker skin. She's absolutely stunning!!"
Another wrote: "I think whoever photographed Viola did an exceptional job!"
A third added: "Trust ELLE to deliver. Still loving this cover shoot. Never seen Viola Davis shot as well as she was in this. The Fashion and Creative department did a phenomenal job."
And a fourth said: "Whew! Gotta catch our breath! @violadavis is stunning. The whole of it- lighting, makeup, styling, her face, HER!, the depth of artistry is award-worthy. Money says these will be in a museum someday. We gonna frame a couple ourselves."
Viola's new movie 'The Woman King' has caused a huge stir in Hollywood, meanwhile, and has even be the subject of boycott calls over its depiction of the slave trade amid history 'whitewashing' claims.
The film has come under fire over it's portrayal of the Dahomey and its legendary all-women regiment. Although shown as righteous and empowering in the flick, historians say they played a much more significant role in the Atlantic slave trade.
It was one of only a few tribes known to sell black slaves to Europeans, throughout the 16th to 18th centuries, which isn't alluded to in the film's trailer.
And according to TMZ historians have weighed in saying it does 'blur the lines a bit by making the Dahomey look more like victims of circumstance than willing participants'.
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