In Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Viola Davis is a fighter. A Southern blues singer on the down side of her career in 1927 Chicago, Ma Rainey is in charge of her band and in love with a woman.
Davis’s role in the new Netflix adaptation of the 1984 August Wilson play presented the Oscar winner with a powerful new challenge, she said, while speaking at a virtual press event for the film on Monday with her director, George C.
Wolfe. “A huge motivating factor with me is feeling like I’m not valued,” Davis said. “It either makes me come up like a pit bull or feel like crap.
Ma… is up for the fight. I loved that fight in her, her unapologetic nature, even with her sexuality.” The presentation included scenes of Chadwick Boseman singing and dancing as.
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