Viola Davis and George C. Wolfe on Chadwick Boseman as Levee
Image zoom Describing the central conflict in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, between her titular diva and Chadwick Boseman’s ambitious trumpeter, star Viola Davistells EW that “Levee represents everything that is antithetical towards [Ma’s] belief system. He is representative of a new phase of music that will render her extinct, for lack of a better term. He is unruly and undisciplined. I think that makes her uneasy. She sees him sexually as a threat too, to women that she has in her life.” Throughout the Netflix film (now streaming), an adaptation of the August Wilson play, Levee plots...
Source: ew.com