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 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.
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
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.
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.
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones. And so the muscles will have endurance and stability. And flexibility, which helps you throw the ball harder or have the snap to hit a ball. Or to take off quickly to steal a base.
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 would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
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.