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Viola Davis on becoming an action hero inG20: 'I wanted to be Indiana Jones'

Viola Davis had a blast fighting bad guys and channeling her inner Indiana Jones for her action-packed thriller 'G20': 'I wanted to be the hero in the story.'

The Oscar-winner tells Entertainment Weekly she had a blast channeling iconic action heroes like Harrison Ford's Nazi-punching archeologist in G20, her new action-packed thriller from director Patricia Riggen. Davis says the film “harkened back to all the movies” and heroes that made her fall in love with acting in the first place: "Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Davis, who also produced the feature alongside husband and producing partner Julius Tennon, plays a formidable U.S. president who must defend not just her fellow world leaders but also her family — husband Derek ( Anthony Anderson) and children Serena ( Marsai Martin) and Demetrius (Christopher Farrar) — when a group of crypto bros led by the volatile Rutledge ( The Boys' Antony Starr) take the politicians hostage as part of a ploy to destabilize the world economy.

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