Mar 17, 2026 · 1:18:10

Viola Davis on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

with VD Viola Davis

The Hang, in Short

Amy breaks protocol by interviewing a spouse for the first time, and Julius Tennon doesn't disappoint. The best part? He admits Viola almost never called him after they met on the set of City of Angels in 1999 because he had his shirt on when he gave her his card. "If my shirt had been off, she would have never called me," he says, which is absolutely incredible. They've been together 27 years now, married for 23. Julius gets real about supporting each other as struggling actors with bad credit, producing The Woman King together, and why self-esteem means actually knowing yourself. He's got serious coach energy, saying Amy's name every other sentence, and honestly it works. The episode teases Viola's interview where they'll apparently discuss Rhode Island accents, skydiving with Meryl Streep, and her new James Patterson book Judge Stone.

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    Hello everyone. Welcome to another

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    episode of Good Hang. We have the best

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    of the best. We have the GOAT. We have

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    Viola Davis joining us. And man, we talk

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    about so many fun things. We talk about

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    uh growing up in Rhode Island and Boston

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    and how we get rid of those accents. We

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    talk about our mutual best friend,

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    Merryill Streep. We talk about the time

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    she jumped out of a plane and all the

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    swearing she did on the way down. and we

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    talk about the new book that she

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    co-wrote with James Patterson called

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    Judge Stone out now. So, we're going to

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    get into a lot of great stuff and we're

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    thrilled to have her here. And as we

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    always do, we talk to someone at the

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    beginning of the show uh that we that

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    knows our guest or is a fan of our guest

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    and has a question for us and we talk

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    well behind their back and boy, we've

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    got just a gem of a person. Julius

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    Tenan, Viola Davis's husband, partner,

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    producing partner, incredible,

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    loving supportive

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