American Violet - interview with Nicole Beharie

NICOLE BEHARIE (Dee Roberts)
Having only recently graduated from the acting program at New Yorks famed
Juilliard School, Beharie finds herself starring as the central character in American
Violet, which is only her second film. She also appeared in THE EXPRESS, whose
stars include Dennis Quaid and her AMERICAN VIOLET co-star Charles S. Dutton. A
biopic drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African
American recipient of the coveted Heisman Trophy, Beharie portrays Daviss
romantic interest Sarah Ward in the film.

Based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the
astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24
year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas
town who is barely making ends meet on a waitress salary and government
subsidies.
On an early November morning while Dee works a shift at the local diner, the
powerful local district attorney (Academy Award® nominee Michael OKeefe) leads
an extensive drug bust, sweeping her Arlington Springs housing project with military
precision. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of the
womens county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and
dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has
been charged as a drug dealer.
Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the
raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go
home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges thus,
jeopardizing her custody and risking a long prison sentence.
Despite the urgings of her mother (Academy Award® nominee Alfre Woodard), and
with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the
district attorney and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents. Joined in
an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and former local
narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes
her life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also stars Emmy Award®
winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.

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Editor Golda Smith

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[peezhead]

She's gorgeous

[Brownpride88]

She's so beautiful!

[TheRobertokarlos]

this movies, s awesome, n Dee looks is beatiful....so i like this drama..this happens anywhere.....nicole I luvya !!!!

[sn00per8]

I have to see this film!

[mrdefinite]

@Beautifulstar24 She just just completed shooting Mathew Cherry‘s The Last Fall, T.D. Jakes’ On the Seventh Day, also an episode of The CBS Legal Drama “The Good Wife"

[Beautifulstar24]

Wow, such intensity. I really hope she gets more roles in the future. What a talented actress!!

[mackman1013]

all i can say is Oh my God...I love me a beautiful intelligent black woman

[Qluvz2beluved]

I hope to meet her some day. This movie's tells an important story; this kind of stuff is common here in Texas smh. No matter what happens, the WOMEN seem to always get the harsher treatment....I'm always speaking on how bad our generation is, but I never lose focus on the good seeds. So glad that she's gettin shine; I hope she rises to the top and stays humble :) P.S. she IS attractive; i'm in love with her eyes ^_^