legendary blues singer Ma Rainey in the Netflix film , Davis will portray one of the most beloved former first ladies. “I am in the place of a little bit of fear, well, I am not going to lie, a lot of fear,” she recently told ET about preparing to play Obama, revealing she’s done it all. “I started last year… I had the privilege and honor and blessing to be able to talk to her and read her book of course, watch her documentary, look at every video.” Davis adds that “she is all things.
She is a hero. She is just one of those women and people who lives a life bigger than herself and I hope to honor that. [We’ve been doing] makeup tests at my house with my makeup artist and they are doing an extraordinary job with the transformation of it.
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