Hollywood is paying tribute to film legend Sidney Poitier. 🙏 More tributes here: (📸: oprah, tylerperry, violadavis, barackobama)
"This is a big one. No words can describe how your work radically shifted my life," Viola Davis began."The dignity, normalcy, strength, excellence and sheer electricity you brought to your roles showed us that we, as Black folks, mattered!!!"
"I had just won an award and he and Helen Mirren were walking through the kitchen to the stage to present. When I have an overload of adrenaline it has an adverse affect. I can’t bend my knees," she recalled."So, there I am with my heels and an award in my hands, shell shocked and sweaty, GLARING at the two of them. I was searching for the one word to say but couldn’t remember any.
"The grace and class that this man has shown throughout his entire life, the example he set for me, not only as a black man but as a human being will never be forgotten," Perry captioned a series of photos of himself with Poitier."There is no man in this business who has been more of a North Star for me than Sidney Poitier."
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