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FILE - Playwright August Wilson poses at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. on April 7, 2005. A film adaptation of August Wilsonâs play âMa Raineyâs Black Bottom,â premieres on Netflix this Friday. (AP Photo/ Michelle McLoughlin, File) December 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM
NEW YORK - Like many of those involved in the making of âMa Raineyâs Black Bottom,â itâs not easy for Viola Davis to summarize what playwright August Wilson has meant to her except to answer, âEverything.â
Davis first stage role was in Wilsonâs âJoe Turnerâs Come and Gone.â She made her Broadway debut in his âSeven Guitarsâ and won a Tony for âKing Hedley II.â After playing Rose on Broadway in Wilsonâs âFences,â she reprised the role in Denzel Washingtonâs 2016 film, winning her an Oscar. Most of all, as a drama student, a new light turned on for Davis when she first enco
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