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When Colman Domingo was offered a part in Netflix s adaptation of
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, he took a long, deep inhale. When he found out that it was celebrated director George C. Wolfe who would be at the helm, and that Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman had leading roles, he had heard enough. I said, ‘How much more do you want me to say yes? he recalls over Zoom from Los Angeles. I really wanted to be in the room with these artists, knowing that Denzel Washington was taking on the feat of getting August Wilson’s words out there in cinema.
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By the end of this story, there s nothing that will convince you that heaven on Earth exists anywhere else than on a Sunday afternoon in Southeast Los Angeles, at Colman Domingo s mid-century modern home pool outside, laughter inside, drinks everywhere where the host is hard at work making…
brunch. Though he might as well be making pixie dust. Or liquid gold. Something spectacular, shaking and frying and baking a feeling damn near inconceivable nowadays, far beyond bacon, eggs, mimosas.
“I know how to set the tone,” Domingo says during the second of two interviews with me throughout December. ”It should all feel like… you want to