Viola Davis talks Chadwick Boseman, playing Michelle Obama

ABC Viola Davis recently sat down with Entertainment Tonight to discuss her recent turn in the Netflix film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and her upcoming role as former first lady Michelle Obama in Showtime’s anthology series The First Lady, including words of praise for her Ma Rainy co-star Chaddwick Boseman.

“A lot of times when Black actors are nominated for any award or get any accolades or get a spotlight, it is always with a caveat that it is only happening because we’re Black, or it is only happening because such and such and such and such. It’s never deserved,” she says.

However, that’s not true of Boseman, who has racked up