“He did a brilliant job, and he’s gone,” Washington said.
“I still can’t believe it.”
“A lot of actors mistake their presence for the event,” Davis told the paper.

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That was absolutely, 150 percent off the table with Chadwick.
He could completely discard whatever ego he had, whatever vanity he had, and welcome Levee in."
“I’m looking back at how tired he always seemed,” she said.

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And he received it."
“I think a lot of times, people look at someone’s life backwards,” she said.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottompremieres Dec. 18 on Netflix.

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