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Ma Rainey s Black Bottom will begin streaming on Netflix on December 18
Viola Davis has collected an Academy Award, an Emmy, two Tonys and dozens more acting kudos, and now another powerhouse role has propelled her to the top of the 2021 best actress Oscar race: Gertrude Ma Rainey, the unapologetically brash real-life Southern blues singer at the centre of a tempestuous 1927 Chicago recording session in the August Wilson adaptation
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom (which begins screening on Netflix on Friday, December 18). It s a juicy role that has landed Davis in the Oscar conversation along with her co-star, the late Chadwick Boseman, who dazzles in his final performance as a hotheaded young horn player with eyes for Ma s girlfriend and radical new ideas for Ma s music. But even the formidable Davis admits she wasn t initially sure she could pull off the swaggering blues legend.
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