Netflix has finally unveiled a trailer for Rainy’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of actor Chadwick Boseman’s final movie, the Oscar-tipped August Wilson adaptation.
The Black Panther star, who died at the age of 43 in August Gust, has been nominated as a posthumous Oscar contender for her performance in the Mother the Blues storytelling film starring Viola Davis, and while recording her album White at the end of her career, Battle for control with the creator. Boseman plays the role of the ambitious trumpeter Levy.
Earlier she played her mother in the James Brown biopic Get On Up, about the actor she said, “Not to compete with Chadwick’s mother, but she was my baby.” “Chadwick was an artist. That’s it Was He loved it, he Demanded That every way. It was incredible for someone to look so small.
The film is produced by Denzel Washington, who previously directed and starred in Wilson’s Fence Adaptation, in which Davis won his first Oscar.
“He was a gentleman and a brilliant artist who would stay with us forever through his iconic performances on his short yet famous career,” Washington told Washington Shington about Boseman, whom he once paid tuition for at the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer Program.
Bossman died of colon cancer in August, as the film was in post-production, preferring not to tell others about his illness while they were making the film.
“I’m looking back that he always seemed bored,” David said last month. “I see his beautiful, incredible team that were paying attention to him and massaging him, and now I realize they were in an effort to get him to go and get them to work at his best. And he achieved that. “
This year saw Boseman star in Spike Lee’s Da5 Bloods, a role that also saw him earn a posthumous Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Mae Raini’s Black Bottom will be released in select theaters in November before Netflix launches in December.
