Netflix unveiled the first trailer and preview for the upcoming “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Monday morning along with a conversation with co-star Viola Davis and director George C.
Wolfe.
The movie version premieres Dec.
18 on NetflixThe acclaimed August Wilson play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is set in the late 1920s around the pioneering “queen of the blues” (played by Davis) and her band members.Boseman, who died of colon cancer in August, plays Levee, a talented but troubled trumpet player who has an eye for Rainey’s girlfriend and is determined to stake his own claim on the music industry.
Davis, who had played Boseman’s mother in “Get on Up,” said, “Chadwick was just an artist.
That’s just who he was.”Davis went on to say, “I don’t know that people understand the absolute impact of that statement.
We are in the business, that a lot
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