Colman Domingo Emotionally Breaks Down His Chadwick Boseman Fight Scene

When I interview someone, I try to stay emotionally tethered to my subject, but in a sort of muted or blank way, to keep the focus and energy on them, to stay an invisible catalyst for their musings. This was difficult to achieve when Colman Domingo, as part of our forthcoming Collider Connected longform interview, told me about working with the late Chadwick Boseman on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Boseman's final film role. His experience working with Boseman prompted tears to bubble into my eyes, making me feel emotional to a degree I've never experienced in an interview. If you want a story about art, struggle, faith, triumph, and inspiration, read on, but keep a tissue close.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the George C. Wolfe-directed Netflix film based on the play by August Wilson, stars Viola Davis as Ma, a volatile but gifted blues singer who's scheduled to cut a new record with a band that includes Boseman as Levee, a volatile but gifted trumpet player, and Domingo as Cutler, a trombone player who's just trying to stay afloat. In one key scene of the gripping film, Cutler tells Levee why faith is important in troubling times, prompting an eruption of pain from Levee, and a physical strike from the normally composed Cutler in response.

I asked Domingo what it was like to stage, play, and shoot this intense scene with Boseman. His answer, written in full below, covered the film, their relationship as actors and brothers, and all of our relationship with life.

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