Viola Davis already knows how she’ll celebrate if she becomes an EGOT winner.
The “Woman King” star just earned her first Grammy nomination for her 2022 memoir “Finding Me.”
If he wins, the actor will join EGOT’s elite group – Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners – as the 18th member.
At the 13th annual Governors Awards at the Fairmount Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Saturday, Davis talked about her recent nomination and what it would be like to receive the EGOT honor.
“I felt pretty good,” Davis told Entertainment Tonight winning the nomination for her audiobook, which she narrated.
He took home the award for best audiobook, story and recording along with nominees Mel Brooks (who already has an EGOT), Jamie Foxx, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Questlove.
Davis has a lead actress Emmy for “How to Get Away With Murder,” a supporting actress for “Fences” and two Tonys for “Fences” and “King Hedley II,” which put her on the verge of status EGO.
If he were to win his first Grammy this year, he would join the ranks of only 17 people to ever win the EGOT, including John Legend And Jennifer Hudson.
It would also make her the third black woman, along with Whoopi Goldberg and Hudson, in that rarefied company.
“It’s a surreal title to have,” Davis told the entertainment station about the potential to win the EGOT. “And I thought about it, and I thought to myself, ‘If I can pull this off, I might as well have dinner.’
“And you know, I don’t celebrate my wins,” Davis added. “But I would celebrate this win.”
Discussing what drives her in her decade-long career in Hollywood, the actor told Elle Women in Hollywood 2011: “What keeps me going is hope.”
“And that’s the hope that black women are part of the narrative, that our stories are just as powerful, because we also have the power to transform. We also have the power to be weird and sexy and different and funny and honest and all those things,” she added at Elle’s tribute event.
Instead of Davis, she is set to play a twisted villain in Lionsgate’s “Hunger Games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents.”
The dystopian action-adventure also includes previously announced cast members Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) as Lucy Gray Baird, Tom Blyth (“Billy the Kid”) as a young Coriolanus Snow, Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones” ). Jason Schwartzman (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) and Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”).
“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” will be released in theaters on November 17, 2023.
