Exclusive: Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Jeremy Shamos, and Dusan Brown have been added to the cast of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the Denzel Washington-produced Netflix adaptation of August Wilson’s 1982 play.
They are joining previously announced Oscar winner Viola Davis, Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman, Emmy winner Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts. George C. Wolfe, the director behind the Emmy nominated miniseries Lackawanna Blues and the Oprah Winfrey-starring HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is directing this project.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the screenplay which follows Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” and the tensions that boil over between her white agent, her producer, and her bandmates while making a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927.
The play opened at Broadway’s Cort Theatre in...
They are joining previously announced Oscar winner Viola Davis, Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman, Emmy winner Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts. George C. Wolfe, the director behind the Emmy nominated miniseries Lackawanna Blues and the Oprah Winfrey-starring HBO movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is directing this project.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the screenplay which follows Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” and the tensions that boil over between her white agent, her producer, and her bandmates while making a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927.
The play opened at Broadway’s Cort Theatre in...
- 7/2/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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