According the Story of Los Angles Times: When people tell Viola Davis that they have a favorite scene from "Fences," she knows where they're going. It's that scene where her loving, long-suffering character, Rose, learns from her husband that he's seeing another woman, a woman who's now pregnant. And he's not going to stop seeing her. Devastated, Rose nearly collapses and then vents her hurt and anger. Between camera coverage and close-ups, Davis performed her long monologue 23 times for the film. Here's what Davis told me about the scene: "My whole theory about that speech is that it would be every woman’s speech if they’ve been in a marriage for a long time and their husband came home and said, “You know, I got another woman pregnant.” Because there’s not one woman who hasn’t sacrificed a hell of a lot for her marriage. We’re the sacrificers. "I always say that there’s one moment in a person’s life that is no-holds-barred, lack-of-vanity, absolutely traumatizing. It could be when a parent dies. It could be a really bad breakup where you have the snot-dripping, leaving-poop-and-pee-on-the-floor moment. Those are the moments you try to forget as much as possible because they are not our shining moments. They are moments that are purely animalistic where you’re operating out of instinct. "I truly believe what Marlon Brando says — there are times when you’re in conversation with someone and you’re fighting for your life. And that’s this scene. Rose is fighting for her life. Her life is her husband and her son. That’s her purpose. He’s taken that all away."
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