Netflix has shared the first look at Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the final film role of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman. Boseman died in August at the age of 43 following a private four-year battle with colon cancer.
His death stunned Hollywood and led to an outpouring of grief and tributes from across the entertainment industry. Boseman’s last big-screen appearance will show him starring alongside Oscar-winner Viola Davis.
It is based on August Wilson’s award-winning 1982 play of the same name and explores racial tensions in 1920s Chicago. Viola plays influential blues artist Ma Rainey while Boseman appears as her ambitious trumpeter Levee.
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