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First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

By Kyle Buchanan Sept. 30, 2020 Updated 6:19 p.m. ET

Boseman, center, with Michael Potts, left, and Colman Domingo. Though Boseman was at the height of his fame when shooting the film, he was able to “discard whatever ego he had, whatever vanity he had," Davis said.
Boseman, center, with Michael Potts, left, and Colman Domingo. Though Boseman was at the height of his fame when shooting the film, he was able to “discard whatever ego he had, whatever vanity he had,” Davis said. Credit…David Lee/Netflix

In the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s a sweat-slicked summer day in Chicago 1927 and everybody wants something. White music-industry bigwigs want a new recording from the indomitable Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), a Southern singer dubbed the “Mother of the Blues,” and they want it fast. Her ambitious trumpeter, Levee (Chadwick Boseman), is desperate to put a contemporary spin on Ma’s old-fashioned songs, hoping it will launch his own career. Read HERE.

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