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 would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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 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.
Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
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.
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.
I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.
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.
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.