Chadwick Boseman’s Manifesto: ‘I Want to Break Barriers in Every Way I Can’

The first time TheWrap spoke to Chadwick Boseman, it was the fall of 2014 and he had just come off the remarkable one-two punch of playing Jackie Robinson in “42” and James Brown in “Get on Up.” At the end of the conversation, he laughed that he was not looking to do another biopic anytime soon. “Another biopic might pop up that I have to do, but before that I have to do a few other things, if not 10 other things,” he said. “And if we make it that far, I’ve already won anyway.” From that moment until his shocking death of cancer at the age of 43, Boseman made exactly 10 more movies: first “Gods of Egypt”; then “Captain America: Civil War,” the first of four Marvel films in which he played Black Panther; then another biopic, “Marshall,” in which he played U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; and also “Message From the King,” “21 Bridges,” Spike Lee’s recent “Da 5 Bloods” and the upcoming “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Just a handful of those roles – “42,” “Get on Up,” “Black Panther,” “Marshall” and “Da 5 Bloods” – would be a remarkable streak for any actor, much less...

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