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"Viola Davis has been there, done that. The actress, who earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as a Southern maid in 2011&amp;apos;s The Help, says she has no intention of playing a domestic worker ever again.\r\nIn her latest film, Beautiful Creatures, Davis plays a librarian named Amma. The character is a hybrid of two characters, a maid and librarian, who first appeared in the popular book series by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m tired of that,&amp;quot; Davis, 47, tells CNN of playing a housekeeper. &amp;quot;Me and Octavia [Spencer], Aunjanue Ellis, Roslyn Ruff -- we all played maids in The Help and it was fabulous. It&amp;apos;s a fabulous story because we were personalized and all of those things, but I think that people need to see an African American in the 21st century integrated in the life of this town and family who&amp;apos;s not in servitude.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nDirected by Richard LaGravenese, Beautiful Creatures tells the story of an ordinary high school student, Ethan Wate, who falls in love with a potentially dangerous caster named Lena Duchannes. Davis praised newcomers Alden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert for bringing the characters to life on the big screen.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;They weren&amp;apos;t thinking about, &amp;apos;Everything is resting on my shoulders, how are people going to receive the movie?&amp;apos; That is not your job as an actor,&amp;quot; Davis tells CNN. &amp;quot;They were artists doing their job, in the moment, without vanity, with courage. And that&amp;apos;s what I respected about them, I really did. There&amp;apos;s no sense of stress in any of them. It was wonderful to watch.&amp;quot;\r\nBeautiful Creatures is in theaters Feb. 14."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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