NEW YORK – The Tony nominated work “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by the late August Wilson is now playing to the masses on screen courtesy of celebrated director and theater artist, George C. Wolfe.
The film centers around Ma Rainey, a real life blues singer, played by Viola Davis, and her bandmates featuring Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts and the late Chadwick Boseman. Little did Wolfe know, when he was directing the film, that he would be directing Boseman’s final performance.
“I have trouble with past tense with him. But you know, it was a joy watching him go on the journey, of stripping himself emotionally bare. So
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