Viola Davis – the star of “How to Get Away With Murder”, “The Help”, and “Suicide Squad – shared the South African video to her 9,6 million Instagram followers.
Global (01 August 2022) – Academy-Award-winning actress and philanthropist Viola Davis has shared a South African cover of Beyoncé’s ‘Irreplaceable’ to her 9,6 million Instagram followers.
The awesome “Cape Flats” video, which features Felicity Kiran, Anray Amasure and Lauren-Lee Bock from the cast of Woman2Woman, has been doing the rounds on social media for years!
The ladies originally created the video hoping to promote a show they were doing but never expected it to go viral! There are a few versions of the video floating around social media, but collectively it has garnered millions of views and catapulted them to South African stardom.
And now they are reaching the globe too!
Bock says she was “sound asleep last Thursday morning, and I realised very quickly something was stirring! I was being tagged on social media. The video has just gone ‘bos’ again.”
It turned out that the star of “How to Get Away With Murder”, “The Help”, and “Suicide Squad shared the video on her Instagram, tagging Woman2Woman and The Expresso Show, where the talented trio often appear to perform covers of songs.
“Me talking to my anxiety and self-doubt… (I’m the sista in the black dress).” – Viola Davis
Watch the full video of the original song below:
One of the group members visited Expresso to chat about the Viola Davis share: