Viola Davis found freedom in playing a ‘big, bisexual, dark-skinned’ woman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Viola Davis reflected on playing a bisexual blues singer and working with the late Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning actor plays the “Mother of the Blues”, legendary singer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, in the eagerly-anticipated Netlix film. Rainey is a...