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# Emmy Awards Well Played: Viola Davis in Marchesa
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/emmy-awards-well-played-viola-davis-in-marchesa-09-2016/
- Published: 2016-09-20T20:15:31.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-20T16:43:53.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: Awards & Galas, Well Played, 2016 Emmys, Emmys, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49

This dress isn't a world-stopper or a fire-started, but let's be honest, here -- they don't all need to be. What it is, is fantastic on her:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2016/09/gettyimages-607626338.jpg "68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals")](https://www.gofugyourself.com/emmy-awards-well-played-viola-davis-in-marchesa-09-2016/68th-annual-primetime-emmy-awards-arrivals-30?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

(With bonus points to Julius for the matching bow tie.) She looks gorgeous, comfortable, and elegant. I often say that Viola Davis is a great example of an actress who I never really worry about when it comes to the red carpet. No matter what, she is not going to show up wearing something totally terrible, and that is relaxing. I trust her implicitly, because she always looks like a beautiful adult professional and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, it isn't. Beautiful adult professionals are in far too short a supply in the world, and I deeply appreciate them (this is the same reason I find cute men in reading glasses, like, changing your light bulbs without being asked incredibly sexy*).* She looks great in this, and also like a person who knew she probably wasn't going to win, so there was no need to turn everything up to a 10 when she could show up and slay at about a 7\. Conserve your energy. It's what beautiful adult professionals do.

\[Photo: Getty Images\]