The Root

Know Your Worth: Viola Davis Is Every Black Woman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

If her roles as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder, Rose Maxson in Fences or Aibileen Clark in The Help haven’t convinced you, no doubt Davis’s performance in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s ...
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Viola Davis Admits She Was a 'Little Judgmental' of Chadwick Boseman on“ Ma Rainey”'s Set Before Finding Out 'He Was Dying'

Viola Davis is reflecting on working with Chadwick Boseman for the actor's last film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In an interview with The Times, the actress, 59, shared that no one on set knew ...
Gold Derby

Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ for Netflix

It seems this will be a motion picture, that just happens to be distributed by Netflix. Premise: Depicts the tensions musician Ma Rainey encountered between her bandmates, her white agent and her ...
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Viola Davis Shows That Being The "Mother Of The Blues" Isn't Easy In New Ma Rainey Teaser

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which features Viola Davis as the "Mother of the Blues," will premiere December 18 globally on Netflix. A new teaser trailer has been released from the forthcoming ...
Bay Area Reporter

A riveting Ma Rainey: Viola Davis stars in marvelous music biopic

The first few moments of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom are electrifying. It's 1927 in rural Georgia. Hundreds of people, all of them Black, are lined up at the entrance to a huge tent. Inside, Ma ...