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 think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.
I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.
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.
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.
Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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.
When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.
You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.
Girls like dudes that are overweight. I know too many women who say, "I like you now that you've got a little thicker," and I don't really know any woman that says, "I like you now that you've got bald."
Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.