So I was as shocked, and saddened, as everybody else.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest The mother of the blues ... watch the trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. You wouldn’t see it coming, the rage that’s inside the man.”Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was a real person. They don’t understand that’s life’s way of talking.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The biggest point of her beauty is that she knows her worth’ ... Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. Now, entertainers such as Washington, Boseman and Davis have the power to get black stories made – and there is a depth of black talent to put them on screen. His character in Ma Rainey is hardly a moral paragon, but, under the circumstances, it could be his most heroic performance of all.

Source: The Guardian December 04, 2020 06:01 UTC