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Viola Davis talks Chadwick Boseman, playing Michelle Obama
February 25, 2021
Article taken from Connect FM.
(LOS ANGELES) — Viola Davis recently sat down with Entertainment Tonight to discuss her recent turn in the Netflix film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and her upcoming role as former first lady Michelle Obama in Showtime’s anthology series The First Lady, including words of praise for her Ma Rainy co-star Chaddwick Boseman.
“A lot of times when Black actors are nominated for any award or get any accolades or get a spotlight, it is always with a caveat that it is only happening because we’re Black, or it is only happening because such and such and such and such. It’s never deserved,” she says.
However, that’s not true of Boseman, who has racked up a number of posthumous award nominations this season.
“Chadwick Boseman deserves it,” Davis insists. “This is someone who did the work, who learned the trumpet. I mean, those long three, four-page monologues, are you kidding me? He did the work, and he did an extraordinary job.”
Boseman died last August at age 43.
Ma Rainey, based on the August Wilson play of the same name, centers on an afternoon recording session for titular blues singer in 1920s Chicago.
Meanwhile, the 55-year-old actress will next star as Michelle Obama in the Showtime series, The First Lady. Davis, a friend of the former first lady, says preparing for the role was a humbling experience.
“Now I am in the place of…I’m not going to lie, a lot of fear,” she tells ET. “Let me tell you something, she’s dope. She’s everything. She’s a hero. She is just one of those women and people that lives a life bigger than herself, and I hope to honor that.”
BLACK LIVES MATTER, a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
HUNGER IS, a joint charitable program of the Albertsons Companies Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), is designed to build awareness and raise funds in an effort to eradicate childhood hunger in America. Funds raised through Hunger Is directly benefit programs focused on combating childhood hunger and improving health-related outcomes across the United States.
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