Los Angeles β OWN announced today βOWN Spotlight: Viola Davisβ to air Friday, April 16 at 10 pm ET/PT on OWN. Continuing conversations surrounding issues impacting Black lives, Oprah talks to Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award-Winning actress Viola Davis about her role as fearless blues singer Ma Rainey in βMa Raineyβs Black Bottom,β available on Netflix now. In the film, tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a recording session.
Oprah talks to Viola Davis, the most nominated Black actress in Oscar history, about her new film “Ma Raineyβs Black Bottom.” In yet another critically acclaimed performance which led to an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Davis inhabits βthe Mother of the Bluesβ in an adaptation of an August Wilson play. Davis reveals what Ma’s struggle says about today’s America and what it taught her about harnessing her own powers as a Black woman. She also shares her thoughts on working with the late Chadwick Boseman on his final film.
βOWN Spotlight: Viola Davisβ will be available on the WatchOWN app, in addition to being available on discovery+ starting Saturday April 17 through the end of the month, as well as on the βSuper Soulβ podcast line-up starting April 19. βOWN Spotlight: Viola Davisβ is produced by OWN. The executive producers are Oprah Winfrey and Tara Montgomery.