Viola Davis: 'all the women in my life who are big, are very sexual. They do not apologise for their bodies'

Viola Davis on her role in the Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom about the bisexual singer known as the Mother of the Blues 

Viola Davis in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In the background are Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Michael Potts and Glynn Turman. 

Viola Davis dons a fatsuit, gold teeth and greasepaint to deliver what is a phenomenal performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the tale of a formidable woman known as the Mother of the Blues.

Over five years between 1923 and 1928, Rainey and her band made over 100 recordings, making her one of the most powerful figures in US music at the time.