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Viola Davis is making another August Wilson adaptation after Oscar win for Fences by Marcus Jones

Viola Davis will be back playing another character from the August Wilson canon after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2017 for her role in Denzel Washington's big-screen adaptation of Fences. Netflix announced Wednesday that it is adapting Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom into a film that will also star Chadwick Boseman. This time around, instead of Washington directing, the production has brought …

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 4:18pm on June 19, 2019

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