Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

My guest this week is a Hollywood powerhouse.

She is the Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe-winning actress Viola Davis.

We walk through not just an extraordinary career, but an extraordinary life.

She was born on a former plantation in a one-room shack in South Carolina moved as an infant

up to Central Falls, Rhode Island with her family where she lived in destitute poverty.

Roaches in the house, you'll hear all about it.

Counting only on her school lunch for a meal every day to rise from that place to where

she is now is an incredible story and you're going to hear every bit of it.

She went to the Juilliard school, she went on, became a Tony-winning actress on Broadway,

and then worked her way on the Hollywood's A-list with breakout roles in the help, and

then an Oscar-winning performance alongside Denzel Washington in Fences, not to mention

a starring role in a hit TV show that earned her an Emmy, How to Get Away with Murder.

Interesting to hear Viola talk about fame, still kind of uncomfortable with it, knows

how fleeting it is, and talks about giving back and doing the important things with her

platform.

Among them, her latest project, a documentary called A Touch of Sugar.

It's about the diabetes crisis in our country.

She was diagnosed with prediabetes a few years ago, and it runs in her family, using

the platform to talk about an epidemic in this country.

A powerful conversation, Viola Davis, I have to say, sucks you in.

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