The Woman King: This was Viola Davis's hard training to get strong
The Suicide Squad actress had to go through nine months of strength training with excellent nutrition. The Woman King will be released in October.
Viola Davis has worked hard to look better than ever in The Woman King , the feature film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, which opens in theaters on October 14 . There is a certain obsession in the mainstream these days for artists to look great physically . This aspect has always been taken care of within celluloid and television fiction, but now there is a fixation for the extreme muscularity of the protagonists. You just have to see any superhero product to realize it, or any action film. For The Woman King , Davis also went through a tough training process to play General Nanisca.
Extremely tough workouts are becoming more and more common in the great blockbusters
From People , it has now been revealed that Davis spent nine months of hard training to be able to adapt to the physical characteristics that were stipulated for the feature film. The training was very hard with generous doses of high intensity weightlifting and strength training, accompanied by impeccable nutrition. Gabriela Mclain, trainer of the artists of the work, explained that each actor and actress had received a unique training: " There is no plan that works for everyone. Everyone needs to train in a different way ." The protagonist also carried out all kinds of activities, " everything, from fencing, spears, machetes. Many punches ." The actress actually admits that she "feels very tough."
Davis's training, however, was as natural as possible so that his appearance was appropriate to the time that the film raises . "My goal was to make it more or less natural, what the woman would look like if they were going to fight because it's based on true stories." That is to say, that in no case did she seek to deform the protagonists' bodies too much so that they seemed to come directly from bodybuilding factories. Viola Davis is joined by John Boyega, Lashana Lynch, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Thuso Mbedu, Jayme Lawson and Adrienne Warren in the cast, who have also undergone significant training for the film.
