{"id":150441,"date":"2021-03-17T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=150441"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:06:17","slug":"blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff\/","title":{"rendered":"blackfilm.com Speaks With &#8216;Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom&#8217; Makeup &#038; Hair Team: Mia Neal &#038; Matiki Anoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n\t       <div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <div class=\"mace-youtube\" data-mace-video=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEnt_YNzkR0?showinfo=0&#038;rel=1&#038;ytp-pause-overlay=1&#038;autoplay=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\" data-mace-video-thumb=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/vEnt_YNzkR0\/hqdefault.jpg\"><div class=\"mace-play-button\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>blackfilm.com<\/strong> correspondent Ellen Wanjiru speaks with&nbsp;the <strong>hair and makeup team from <em>Netflix&#8217;s&nbsp;Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom<\/em><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brklynin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mia Neal<\/a><\/strong> (hair department head) and <strong>Matiki Anoff<\/strong> (makeup department head) about crafting Ma Rainey&#8217;s look using what was accessible to a Black woman in the 1920s, turning a manure-covered, lice-infested bundle of horse hair into Ma Rainey&#8217;s shiny wig, and behind the hair: 100 hand-build wigs and 400 haircuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film centers on a fateful recording session of &#8220;Mother of the Blues&#8221; Ma Rainey in 1927 Chicago, and stars Academy award-winner\u00a0<strong>Viola Davis<\/strong>\u00a0who plays the proud, complicated, and talented MA RAINEY, Tony and Oliver award-winner\u00a0<strong>Colman Domingo<\/strong> plays the level-headed trombone player Cutler, Emmy winner\u00a0<strong>Glynn Turman<\/strong>\u00a0plays the sagacious piano player Toledo, <strong>Michael Potts<\/strong>\u00a0plays the composed bassist Slow Drag and\u00a0<strong>Chadwick Boseman, <\/strong>in his final film appearance, plays the charismatic, ambitious hot head cornet player Levee. <strong>Watch Blackfilm.com\u2019s interview with the three band members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2020\/12\/colman-domingo-glynn-turman-michael-potts-talk-ma-raineys-black-bottom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were recently announced and <strong>\u2018Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson\u2019 (\u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom\u201d)&nbsp;<\/strong>became the first Black women to be nominated in the Makeup and Hairstyling category. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/03\/2021-black-oscar-nominations-the-complete-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"> <\/span>to see the full list!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MRBB_Unit_11605_R-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"blackfilm.com speaks  hair makeup team  Ma Rainey's Black  Mia Neal hair  Matiki Anoff (makeup  Ma Rainey's  Black hair Ma Rainey's hair\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-147310\"\/><figcaption>Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. Cr. 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In a roaring decade known for prosperity, jazz bands, flappers, and bathtub gin, the film does an eloquent job showing an antithetical point of view on the Black experience during that era. A view that explores the consequences of the&nbsp;Great Migration, particularly what was lost when Black people left the rural south for the urban north, and themes that are still relevant today, such as race, culture, faith, sexuality, music, and trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">blackfilm.com Speaks With Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom Makeup &amp; Hair Team: Mia Neal &amp; Matiki Anoff<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blackfilm.com correspondent Ellen Wanjiru speaks with&nbsp;the hair and makeup team from Netflix&#8217;s&nbsp;Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom Mia Neal (hair department head) and Matiki Anoff (makeup department head) about crafting Ma Rainey&#8217;s look using what was accessible to a Black woman in the 1920s, turning a manure-covered, lice-infested bundle of horse hair into Ma Rainey&#8217;s shiny wig, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":147565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,18,143,142,23],"tags":[32923,3806,32921,30795,32922,32920,32919],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-interviews","9":"category-read","10":"category-videos","11":"category-watch","12":"tag-black-artisians","13":"tag-blackfilm","14":"tag-jamika-wilson","15":"tag-ma-raineys-black-bottom-2","16":"tag-ma-raineys-hair-and-makeup-team","17":"tag-matiki-anoff","18":"tag-mia-neal"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>blackfilm.com Speaks With &#039;Ma Rainey&#039;s Black Bottom&#039; Makeup &amp; Hair Team: Mia Neal &amp; Matiki Anoff - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"blackfilm.com speaks with Ma Rainey&#039;s Black Bottom Makeup &amp; Hair Team: Mia Neal &amp; Matiki Anoff about crafting Ma Rainey&#039;s look.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"blackfilm.com Speaks With &#039;Ma Rainey&#039;s Black Bottom&#039; Makeup &amp; Hair Team: Mia Neal &amp; Matiki Anoff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"blackfilm.com speaks with Ma Rainey&#039;s Black Bottom Makeup &amp; Hair Team: Mia Neal &amp; Matiki Anoff about crafting Ma Rainey&#039;s look.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/blackfilm-com-speaks-with-ma-raineys-black-bottom-makeup-hair-team-mia-neal-matiki-anoff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"blackfilm.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blackfilm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-17T14:05:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-26T19:06:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Viola-e1615839753166.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"734\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ellen J. 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