Breakthrough Role
Boseman’s breakthrough role came around in 2013 when he portrayed the baseball pioneer and star Jackie Robinson in the movie, 42. When he auditioned for the role, he’d been directing an off-broadway play in East Village. In fact, this led him to ponder the possibility of giving up acting altogether in favor of directing full-time. However, that changed when he got the role of Jackie. This was lucky for us, seeing as it all led him to eventually get the role of Black Panther in 2016. The rest, as they say, is history.
Breakthrough Role
More Than Dedicated
While preparing for his role as James Brown in the movie Get On Up, Boseman told ABC News that he trained with a choreographer five to eight hours a day. Whenever he was on set, he was James Brown according to the film director, Tate Taylor. “The people around Chad would call him Mr. Brown. When he was picked up in the morning it was, ‘Mr. Brown in the car. Mr. Brown is on-set,’” Taylor said. “He was working so hard, he would make a rare appearance out to dinner, and it would just be odd that Chad was there.”
More Than Dedicated
