Previous to Ma Rainey, Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman labored collectively to adapt one other actual story. Davis performed Susie Brown, James Brown’s mom in Get On Up, the place the actor memorably portrayed the King of Soul. Since filming the film in 2013, Davis considered her actor as her “child,” although she by no means essentially known as him this in particular person. She additionally advised Arab News how privileged she felt to get to work alongside him. And since he gave his performances and his personal life his all, she doesn’t have a look at his latest dying as “tragic.”
