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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA After 60 years in showbiz, Glynn Turman has seen it all. And he’s not done yet [Los Angeles Times] If you’re wondering why Glynn Turman keeps popping up in high-profile projects, the veteran actor can break it down for you. “My manager calls it ‘the Glynnaissance,'” said Turman in a Zoom interview, flashing a smile that lights up the computer screen like a Christmas tree. More than six decades after his debut in the original Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and more than 40 years since his breakthrough in the nostalgic coming-of-age mo...

When Chadwick Boseman arrived in Pittsburgh in 2019 to film the August Wilson adaptation ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, his castmates didn’t know that he’d been privately battling cancer for three years. But co-star Colman Domingo remembers what Boseman said as the ‘Black Panther’ star prepared to pour his all into the incendiary role that would mark his final screen performance: “He said, ‘I can’t wait to dance with you, Colman.’” Boseman, who died in August at the age of 43, commits a fiery and enthralling turn to the 1920s-set ‘Ma Rainey’ as Levee, the talented and...

Prior to his death, Chadwick Boseman had been working on several movie projects, including the forthcoming Ma Rainey's Black Bottom alongside Viola Davis. Based upon the play of the same name, Boseman's final film is headed to Netflix on December 18. The official trailer has already arrived. Here's everything you need to know about Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom explores racial tensions in 1920s Chicago. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is based upon the 1982 play of the same name by August Wilson. The story follows the career of the "Mother of the Blues," real-life singer Ma Ra...

Print When Chadwick Boseman arrived in Pittsburgh in 2019 to film the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” his castmates didn’t know that he’d been privately battling cancer for three years. But costar Colman Domingo remembers what Boseman said as the “Black Panther” star prepared to pour his all into the incendiary role that would mark his final screen performance: “He said, ‘I can’t wait to dance with you, Colman.’” Boseman, who died in August at the age of 43, commits a fiery and enthralling turn to the 1920s-set “Ma Rainey” as Levee, the talente...

Four decades ago, Glynn Turman watched August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. "I was thinking, man, I sure would love to do Levee," he tells Esquire down the phone in early December. He never did get to play Levee, the mercurial trumpeter at the heart of the play: a story of a jazz band recording with the legendary (and eponymous) mother of the blues. The late Chadwick Boseman beat him to it for a film adaptation that's coming to Netflix this week. Instead, Turman is the band's cosmically minded elder statesman and pianist Toledo, who he played during a s...