Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

During a recording session, tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable "Mother of the Blues".

Gold teeth, gaudy make-up and a voice that shook buildings: the actress talks about her transformation into real life-mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey in this adaptation of the August Wilson play, and what it took her to become one with her part. .

Denzel Washington, one of the producers of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, asked George C. Wolfe to direct a movie about the legendary blues singer known as the Mother of the Blues, adapting August Wilson's play.