{"id":93073,"date":"2026-03-09T00:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/viola-davis-and-her-latest-co-star-author-james-patterson\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:55:28","slug":"viola-davis-and-her-latest-co-star-author-james-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/viola-davis-and-her-latest-co-star-author-james-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis and her latest co-star, author James Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On yet another sunny winter day in southern California, Viola Davis is home, and happy to be here. She says she’s a homebody: “Homebody, totally. I’m total introvert,” she said.<\/p>\n

What does she like about being at home? “I like just being<\/em>,” she said. “I just like to be regular. I don’t want to put on makeup. I don’t want to try to be anyone else, other than myself.”<\/p>\n

But when she does leave home, she Davis a tendency to make magic. She can light up a red carpet, turn bad guys into superheroes, and in “Air,” even make us believe she helped negotiate Michael Jordan’s shoe deal.<\/p>\n

And now she’s stepped into the publishing world with a new novel, “Judge Stone,” that she co-wrote with superstar author James Patterson, who knows a thing or two about collaboration, having co-written books with President Bill Clinton (“The First Gentleman”<\/a><\/span>) and singer Dolly Parton (“Run, Rose, Run”<\/a><\/span>). <\/p>\n

Davis said she and Petterson couldn’t be any more different: “And yet, meeting, writing this book, I just liked him. We just connected.”<\/p>\n

So, magic happened? “I think magic can happen a lot, if people would just stay open,” Patterson said. <\/p>\n

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“Judge Stone” is a legal thriller about a respected Black female circuit judge in a small Alabama town, who presides over a highly controversial case when a teenage girl named Nova is raped and has an illegal abortion.<\/p>\n

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Why touch on the subject of abortion, when it’s a lightning rod for some people? “That’s why. That’s exactly why,” Patterson replied. “To make it so it’s not<\/em> a lightning rod. And I think that’s why this story is so good, why it’s so powerful, because we’re going into areas that people aren’t [talking about]. We need to talk about it.”<\/p>\n

To help flesh out the character of the victim, Davis says she drew on her own experience with sexual assault. “I felt a responsibility to women who have been sexually assaulted and raped, especially children, as I am one of them,” she said. “And what they also deserve is the truth of how it made them feel.”<\/p>\n

The new book comes out tomorrow, and Patterson says he has high hopes: “You know, every book you start, you want it to be great. And sometimes, you have to settle for not so good, or very good. And in this case, I think we settled for great.”<\/p>\n

They both know all about “great.”<\/p>\n

Viola Davis played an agonized mother in the 2008 film “Doubt” opposite Meryl Streep, who became a close friend during filming. “Miss Meryl Streep! I think we clicked on ‘Doubt’ over a lot of chocolate,” Davis said. “Oh man, we ate the hell out of that chocolate, let me tell you!”<\/p>\n

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