How Playing Blues Legend Ma Rainey Liberated Viola Davis
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variety.comR.F. Terry It rained and rained the night before shooting the establishing tent show scene of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Humidity in the rural outskirts of Pittsburgh — standing in for backwoods Georgia — was at 100%.The summer heat amplified the smell of damp hay in the canvas tabernacle.
Stacked bales served as makeshift stadium seating, just as they had on the chitlin circuit circa 1927.Two other productions filming in town had hired away the region’s professional background actors so the hundred-odd extras who filled the tent were mostly first-timers.
Each was outfitted with a unique 1920’s-era ensemble with a backstory to go with it, personally bestowed by the film’s fabled costume designer, Ann Roth.
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