Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Aaron Boseman is an American actor. He is known for portraying Jackie Robinson in 42, James Brown in Get on Upand T'Challa in the Marvel Studios film Captain America: Civil War. He also had roles in the television series Lincoln Heightsand Persons Unknown, and the films The Expressand Draft Day. He will reprise his Marvel role in Black Panther, scheduled for a 2018 release...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1976
CityAnderson, SC
CountryUnited States of America
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.
I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.
People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.