Margaret and Anne Marie here, with suggestions of how best to rejoice in 50 years of national treasure VIOLA DAVIS...
- Set something on fire with only the power of your measured, penetrating gaze
- Look sensational in a jewel-hued gown
- Drink a tall glass of bubbly while wearing said gown
- Enter a room with unparalleled grace
- Have a professional task you feel is beneath you? Pick it up and blow it out of the water. Because you can.
- Make your coworkers look great
- Give sage & loving advice. Or take someone else's
- Pull up a dick pic on your phone, and accusingly approach strangers with it
- Consider making a donation to the Segue Institute for Learning or the Hunger Is campaign, which are two of Viola Davis' preferred charities
- Visit Rhode Island
- Do a few sets of tricep curls
- Write a thank you note to Shonda Rhimes.
- Paper your neighborhood with Emmy For Your Consideration ads.
- Walk up to the most respected person in your chosen field and gracefully, modestly, utterly outshine them.
- Outshine some nobodies too, just for fun
35 more ways to celebrate after the jump!
- Cut someone petty down to size
- Throw a fiesta!
- Convert a young member of your family into a lifelong Streep fan.
- Call a powerful woman in your life and thank her for the struggles she's overcome and the example she's set.
- Launch a Kickstarter for that Barbara Jordan biopic Tony Kushner wrote for her.
- Buy a ticket to Lila & Eve, in theaters now. (Consider ordering it for Video On Demand)
- Pick up some mid-career Soderbergh (Out of Sight, Traffic, Solaris) and stay tuned for her Actressing at the Edges
- Binge on all seven episodes of Law & Order: SVU in which she appeared.
- Start a Twitter campaign to get that movie adaptation of Fences off the ground. With Viola in lead, naturally.
- Read an August Wilson play (particularly Fences or King Hedley II, for which Viola won her two Tonys)
- Invest in a trophy case
- Break someone's heart with only a slight shift in your posture.
- Waltz with a Clooney lookalike
- Transcend.
- Discuss superhero battle tactics while slicing into a steak
- Give in to your conflicted feelings about superhero movies, now that Viola will be starring in a superhero movie.
- Engage in some Dramatic Chalkboard Writing
- Get yours
- Wear a red leather jacket to a business formal occasion
- Throw someone under the bus in a courtroom.
- Rock a wig...
- ...and rock natural hair...
- ...And read up on the cultural significance of taking the wig off.
- Write a Game of Thrones spec script that includes a prominent role for a "Viola Davis Type" who gets to kill someone. With a spear.
- Eschew false modesty. You've earned what you've got.
- Use your childhood to fuel your art and honesty, and to inspire others.
- Freak out a little bit over Prince
- Fill her Twitter mentions with appreciation and joy
- Get lost in a YouTube wormhole of warm and moving acceptance speeches
- Serve someone ladybugs with a side of terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1x2SyhbHfc
- Call out ageism, sexism, and racism in the entertainment industry
- Support art made by women of color
- Write "Academy Award Winner Viola Davis" thirteen times on thirteen pieces of paper and burn them each at midnight for thirteen consecutive nights
- Love yourself. Surround yourself with people who respect you
- Dance channeling the joy in your heart over how lucky we are to have Viola Davis & her towering gift.
