Working With Chadwick Boseman on ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ an ‘Incredible Experience,’ DP Tobias Schliessler Says
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variety.comMarta Balaga George C. Wolfe’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” features the final performance of “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who died Aug.
28. In the film, coming to Netflix on Dec. 18, he plays an ambitious jazz trumpeter, Levee, butting heads with Viola Davis’ titular blues singer in 1920s Chicago.
Asked about his favorite shot from the film during EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s online seminar, the film’s DP Tobias Schliessler chose one featuring Boseman.“One of the moments I will never forget was when Chadwick had this incredible emotional scene, talking about his mother getting raped,” he said. “I was looking at the monitors and I wanted to get just a little bit more light in his eyes, to show all the emotions.
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