The Mother of Blues: Netflix Movie Cast and Trailer with Oscar winner Viola Davis stars alongside Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) in this adaptation of August Wilson's work. Premieres on December 18 on the streaming platform.
The Netflix movie is set in the 1920s, directed by George C. Wolfe and adapted for the screen by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and produced by Fences Oscar® nominees Denzel Washington and Todd Black.
The film begins, where tensions and temperatures rise over the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago as a band of musicians awaits pioneering artist, the legendary “Mother of the Blues,” Ma Rainey ( Oscar winner Viola Davis). At the end of the session, the fearless and fiery Ma engages in a battle of wills with her manager and producer for control of her music. While the band waits in the studio's claustrophobic rehearsal room, Ambitious cornet player Levee (Chadwick Boseman), who has an eye for Ma's girlfriend and is determined to take a gamble on the music industry, spurs his fellow musicians into an eruption of stories revealing truths that will forever change the course. of their lifes.
The Mother of Blues: Cast, Trailer
Adapted from the play by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM celebrates the transformative power of the blues and the artists who refuse to let society's prejudices dictate their worth. The Mother of Blues: Netflix Movie Cast stars: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Glynn Turman.
The Netflix movie The Mother of Blues premieres on Netflix on December 18, 2020. Watch The Mother of Blues Trailer below below.
