![]() ![]() (The ’30s-set “The Piano Lesson” is on deck.) Following “Fences” and “Ma Rainey,” he intends to continue adapting Wilson’s famed American Century Cycle, a 10-play series spanning each decade of the 20th century. Wolfe’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which begins streaming Friday on Netflix, is the second movie adaptation of Wilson’s plays in an ambitious project spearheaded by Denzel Washington. It still takes huge work and craft but I don’t feel like I have to change the canvas of who I am. It’s something that absolutely speaks to me, that I don’t have to fight to embody. It’s not fitting a square peg into a round hole. Those roles are so much a part of my life. ![]() “With August, when he came along, I didn’t have to do that. “You’re always trying to fit yourself in these roles, trying to make somebody else see you in these roles, transforming into - in your brain - some white woman,” Davis says. ![]()
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