Viola Davis Recalls Being Afraid to Call Out Meryl Streep for Repeatedly Forgetting a Line in ‘Doubt’

Even legendary actors forget their lines sometimes… but that doesn’t mean Viola Davis was eager to call it out when it happened to Meryl Streep in “Doubt.”

Stopping by the latest episode of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,” Davis recalled being very reluctant to tell Streep about her goof at the time. The memory came as Poehler lamented about how hard she finds it to memorize lines for a project, while Davis noted that she finds it easy. The hard part for her, however, is when another actor forgets their lines, as Streep did in their 2008 film.

“She had a line, I had a line, whatever, and then nothing,…