Netflix has released the first look at Chadwick Boseman's final on-screen performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

The Viola Davis-led drama is based on blues singer Ma Rainey and sees Boseman play Levee, a member of Ma's band whose ambitions get the better of him during a recording session that envelopes the tribulations and trauma of the Black experience in 1920s Chicago.

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First-look photos of Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, Boseman's final film, have been released. The film is based on August Wilson's award-winning play from director George C. Wolfe, and is coming to @netflix in December. - #chadwickboseman #violadavis

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Boseman, who died of colon cancer in August at the age of 43 and filmed his scenes for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 2019, can be seen in three of the four images.