'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' review: In 1927 Chicago, Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis and August Wilson play glorious three-part harmony
The late Chadwick Boseman took on many Black men of honor, integrity and nobility in his too-brief career.
When the material allowed him some interpretive leeway, he infused those men — some real, like Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, others mythic, such as T'Challa in "Black Panther" — with the stuff of life and of recognizable, off-the-pedestal humanity. And what he did to explore various sides of more troubling personalities, as he did in the eccentric, undervalued James Brown biopic "Get On Up," indicated the full range of his talent.
A fine actor always looks for the human under the archetype, complicating and challenging our feelings about characters and stories of
