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Denzel Washington on bringing August Wilson s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom to the screen
Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington, Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, Academy Award winner-Viola Davis, and Constanza Romero, widow of writer August Wilson, talk with Tracy Smith about bringing the famed playwright s plays to the screen on CBS Sunday Morning, to be broadcast December 13.
The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wilson wrote a play for every decade of the 20th century, each reflecting the Black experience at the time. Ma Rainey s Black Bottom is a new Netflix film inspired by the true-life story of the blues legend, with Washington serving as a producer. Davis leads the cast, which includes Glynn Turman and the late Chadwick Boseman.