Viola Davis fears what Michelle Obama will think about her portrayal on The First Lady, says "it keeps me up at night"

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“You don’t want to insult them by your portrayal… As much as we feel like we know Michelle Obama—and I did everything I could to research—there are those private moments where there’s some level of creative decision-making that you have to take," Davis said at the TV press tour of portraying the former first lady on the Showtime anthology series. "I don’t know how she lays in bed with Barack or how she disciplines her children. There are small minutiae that I can just take creative license with and hope that I’m not insulting her with it. That’s what you have to navigate as an artist.”