Viola Davis Thinks Harriet Tubman Should Have Gun on $20 Bill

Suicide Squad actress and two-time Academy Award nominee Viola Davis joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show and shared her thoughts on the new $20 bill, which will feature Harriet Tubman instead of Andrew Jackson. Davis believes Tubman is a hero and deserves this moment in our country’s history.

Besides the fact that she freed hundreds of slaves, Davis said of Tubman, “she was also involved in the women’s suffragette movement, she spearheaded the Red Cross, and she was the only woman who fought in a military raid, ever.”

After making history in 2015 by becoming the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama, Davis quoted Tubman in her acceptance speech. Davis will also play Tubman in a still untitled project. It was during her research fir the role that she came up with an unexpected idea.

Davis was adamant about not liking guns, but she said she’d like to play Tubman with a gun. Not just any gun, but a big gun like a shotgun, and that’s what she’d also like to see on the $20 bill. Only after talking to the writer did she decide that a pistol would work both for her character and also for the $20 bill, but only because the older pistols that Tubman would have used were way bigger than most made today.

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