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Hi, Viola. Hi, Oprah. So good to see you. So good to see you too. Just let me offer my deepest

congratulations on your Golden Globe and your SAG Award nominations for Ma Rainey's Black

Bottle. Thank you. Thank you very much.

The incomparable Viola Davis has done it again. With another jaw-dropping performance, a nearly

unrecognizable Viola transforms herself into Ma Rainey, the real-life mother of the blues,

and Ma Rainey's black bottom streaming now on Netflix.

The film, based on the play by poet-deprize-winning playwright August Wilson, covers a single recording

session on a sweltering hot day in Chicago in 1927. But at the heart of the story is so much

more racial injustice, the transformative power of the blues, and what it means to fight

every single day for dignity.

Viola brings the full force of her talent to this role, and the late Chadwick Boseman

is electrifying in his final screen performance. He plays Levy, a trumpet virtuoso coping

with deep-seated trauma.

You have so many awards already, so when you do a role like this and the awards start to

reveal themselves, what does it feel like for you? Is it a great affirmation? You know

what Oprah, it's a combination of a great affirmation, but also a fear of what the imposter

syndrome follows, everyone. I don't care. I mean, I feel like it's sort of a false narrative

if I said that, you know, every time I get an award, I just walk off the stage and I feel

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