Viola Davis paid a virtual visit to “The Graham Norton Show” to promote her new Netflix movie “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Playing the legendary blues singer, she told host Graham Norton, required a bit of physical assistance. “The boobs are all mine, but I also had a lot of padding,” she explained, via the Daily Mail. “I told the costume designer, ‘I want to look like Aretha Franklin, that’s the body I want.'” Wearing the padding, she said, helped her find the spirit of the woman known as “the Mother of the Blues.” RELATED: Viola Davis Details Working With Chadwick Boseman On ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’: ‘He’s A Wonderful Artist’ “The padding had such an effect on me — when I put it on I felt liberated, I felt way more sexy than I am, and I
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