Viola Davis’ Trainer Reveals How Star Lost 15 Lbs. Toned Up After Reaching 200 Lbs. For ‘Ma Rainey’

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom entered the awards race with impressive credentials. One of two films last year featuring the late Chadwick Boseman, George C. Wolfe’s Netflix film also reunites star Viola Davis with the work of playwright August Wilson, a winning combination that landed her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 2016’s Fences.

You have to hand it to Michelle Pfeiffer. First, because the woman seemingly hasn’t aged much at all over the past few decades, which mind-boggling and impressive.

Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time Oscar nominee, is stepping into some iconic shoes. Showtime announced on Thursday that the 62-year-old actress will star as Betty Ford in its upcoming anthology series, The First Lady.Ford, who served as first lady from 1974 to 1977, set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse through her candid nature and work in social policy.

Showtime has tapped Michelle Pfeiffer to star as Betty Ford in its upcoming anthology series, "The First Lady." Pfeiffer joins the previously announced Viola Davis (playing Michelle Obama) for the show, which focuses on the pair, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, and "the roles they played in shaping impactful and sometimes world-changing decisions during their time in the White House," according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The part of Roosevelt has not yet been announced.

Michelle Pfeiffer will be starring in her first TV series in decades!

is a look at America through the eyes of various first ladies.

Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will portray Betty Ford in The First Lady (working title, fka First Ladies), Showtime’s anthology, executive produced by Viola Davis who stars as Michelle Obama. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the series.

On Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, hair and makeup designers Mia Neal, Sergio Lopez-Rivera and Matiki Anoff worked to transform Viola Davis into the titular Georgia singer known as the “Mother of the Blues,” capturing at the same time the essence of her world, and the racial dynamics of her era.

Where you know her from: Playing Ahsha Hayes on VH1’s series “Hit the Floor” and Dussie Mae, girlfriend to the titular blues singer played by Viola Davis, in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”Where you’ll see her this year: In the title role of “Zola,” the 2020 Sundance-acclaimed (and then long-delayed) dramedy based on a 2015 tweetstorm about two strippers on a turbulent, violent road trip.

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Viola Davis literally melts into the title role of the blues singer in Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a film adaptation of the August Wilson play. Her visage, drenched in sweat and rouge and topped with a wiry wig, becomes one of the most searing images of the film.

Chadwick Boseman's wife Taylor Simone Ledward has paid an emotional tribute to the late actor in an acceptance speech for the Gotham Awards Tribute prize. Along with his Ma Rainey's Black Bottom co-star Viola Davis, Boseman was honoured with the posthumous award at yesterday's (January 11) virtual ceremony.

Chadwick Boseman was posthumously honored at the 2020 Gotham Awards.The late actor (who died last August at age 43 following a years-long battle with cancer) and his co-star, Viola Davis, were the recipients of this year's Gotham Awards Tribute prize.

Sharon Stone caused a stir on Instagram this week, as she questioned whether she could be related to Beyonce's mum, Tina Lawson.

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Viola Davis is paying tribute to late co-star Chadwick Boseman.