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Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson Are the First Black Women to Be Oscar-Nominated For Hair and Makeup 743 Shares Fresh off the heels of Grammys weekend, the 2021 Academy Award nominations were officially announced on March 15, and even though this years ceremony wont take place for another month, the nominees are already making history. Chadwick Boseman posthumously received his first-ever Oscar nomination for his role in Ma Raineys Black Bottom, while Viola Daviss best actress nod for her work on th...

Taylour Paige On ‘Boogie,’ Her Bae, And Owning Her Body Of Work “I feel great responsibility to be as intentional as I can about the characters I play and what they’re trying to say" Taylour Paige was all smiles and positivity when we connected via Zoom three days ahead of the release of her latest project. The Santa Monica-born actress and dancer was on a natural high from meditating as she sat on camera with a black sherpa jacket and hair pulled away from her bare face in a half-up, h...

Taylor Jewell/APTaylour Paige is on the cusp of stardom—even if she may not know it herself. The 30-year-old actress starred as Dussie Mae in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opposite Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. She was the talk of Sundance last January with the titular role of Zola, a buck-wild viral Twitter thread spun into the hotly anticipated film by Jeremy O. Harris and Janicza Bravo, out June 30. And just hours before our interview, Paige was announce...

Sacha Baron Cohen played 60s activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkins The Trial of the Chicago 7. Your association with Abbie Hoffman goes back decades … When I was 20, I was staying at the YMCA in downtown Atlanta researching a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the 60s. Abbie Hoffman was one of a bunch of Jewish radicals who went down South to support voter registration for people of color. So I knew about him from the age of 20. Then, 13 years ago, I heard that Sp...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director, George C. Wolfe, reflects on his time working with posthumous Golden Globe winner Chadwick Boseman

The True Story Behind Viola Davis Character inMa Raineys Black Bottom Kayla Keegan On December 18, Netflix released the new film Ma Raineys Black Bottom, a drama adapted from a play of the same name, written by late Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson. Produced by Viola Davis, the movie centers around real-life blues pioneer Gertrude"Ma" Rainey, on the day that she and her band record a song called"Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom." Watching Viola depict Ma, its clear the Os...

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Ma Raineys Screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson: Black Women Were Revolutionary Ruben Santiago-Hudson, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail But in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” we tell the story of this singular icon, Ma Rainey. More from Variety She was a giant in her field and her time. What a lot of people don’t understand about the 1920s is that there were at least 100 blues women recording records — from Paramount to Columbia and with the smaller record labels. Great women like Ida Cox,...

Credit: Sami Drasin for EW Breakout Moment: Dublins Gate Theatre can claim credit for discovering the actor, but the BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooneys Normal People — streamed more than 62 million times in the U.K. alone — made Paul Mescal, 25, a household heartthrob. Lessons From Quarantine: Alone time, especially in Sydney, where hes prepping for a film shoot, tested Mescal — "I lost my mind a lot" — and offered ...

By Tharishi Hewavithanagamage Directed by George C. Wolfe, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ is based on the play of the same name, by August Wilson, who was often referred to as the ‘theater’s poet of Black America.’ The eponymous play was first staged in 1982. The film focuses on Ma Rainey, a real life blues singer and her group of blues musicians, coming together to record a few songs on a hot summer’s day in Chicago in 1927. Produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black, and Dany Wolf, t...