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Viola Davis: 'Ma Rainey' shows long history of Black performers being exploited, and how they've fought back
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" stars Viola Davis, Colman Domingo and Michael Potts and director George C. Wolfe talk about how their acclaimed drama traces inequality and appropriation in the music industry.
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Viola Davis admits breaking down when 'Ma Rainey' co-star Chadwick Boseman died
Viola Davis, Colman Domingo and the cast of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" pay tribute to late co-star Chadwick Boseman. "He left it all on the screen."
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Chadwick Boseman broke down while making final movie 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'
Chadwick Boseman broke down in tears while filming a scene in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his final appearance on screen.
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See Chadwick Boseman's final performance in first 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' trailer
Based on early predictions, Boseman's family mostly likely has a posthumous Oscar statue coming home to them.
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DC FanDome: Who's playing who in James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad'?
The secrets are out and we now know which oddball characters all of the big names will be playing in 'The Suicide Squad'.
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Viola Davis on Why She Regrets ‘The Help': ‘I Betrayed Myself, and My People’
In a searing judgment of a major Hollywood film, Viola Davis said in a new interview with Vanity Fair that she regrets the role she played in “The Help,” the 2011 film that was nominated for an Academy Award but that she said was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism.”“There’s no one who’s not entertained by ‘The Help,'” she told the magazine in a cover story. “But there’s a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn’t rea
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Critics suggest better anti-racism films to watch as 'The Help' tops Netflix charts
'The Help' proved controversial after its release, with even star Viola Davis criticising its portrayal of history.
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