George C. Wolfe on Bringing a Blues Icon to the Screen

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Five-time Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe talks about his acclaimed new motion picture Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the legacy of the original the original Mother of the Blues, and what went into transforming Oscar-winner Viola Davis into this larger than life icon. He discusses what the Chicago jazz scene meant to black musicians who migrated from the Jim Crow South in the 1920s and some of the creative ways that he found to visually depict the foreignness of the urban north for those who made tha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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