Netflix has put the trailer of ‘Ma Rainey’s black bottom’ online. It is the last film in which Chadwick Boseman plays. He died at the end of August at the age of 43.
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The film is set in Chicago, the 1920s. Together with How to get away with murderactress Viola Davis (she plays Ma Rainey), Chadwick Boseman plays an ambitious blues musician, Levee, who plays the horn. Directed by Denzel Washington, the film addresses themes such as music and racism through the story of two black performers exploited by their white management.
Davis previously co-starred with Boseman Get on up, a biography on James Brown. “Not to take up his mother, but he was my baby,” Davis said after Boseman’s death. Chadwick was an artist. He loved it, he claimed it. For someone so young… that was fantastic to see. ‘
The film was shot during the same period that Boseman, known for, among others Black Panther, was treated for colon cancer. The actor kept his diagnosis secret for four years, until the disease became fatal. He never talked about it during interviews. Came earlier this year Da 5 bloods from Spike Lee, in which Boseman acted between surgeries and chemo treatments. Should Boseman be nominated for an Oscar for both films, he would be the first actor to receive two posthumous nominations.
Ma Rainey’s black bottom will be released on Netflix on December 18.
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