Let us take a moment to remember some of the most brilliant roles played by Chadwick Boseman in his short but impactful career and his incessant attempts at making the world more equal for all races, that will be forever remembered
#ripchadwickboseman #BlackPanther
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Boseman led the good fight against racism throughout his life and it was evident from most roles he played. One of his first big breaks was a TV role where he played Reggie Porter on All my children, but was fired from it because he pointed out the racial stereotypes.
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His first role in a feature film happened in 2008 where he played the role of Floyd Little, the Denver Broncos legend in the film The Express: The Ernie Davis story. Floyd Little, is also unfortunaly reported to be battling cancer as of May 2020.
https://twitter.com/broncos/status/1299549056121761792?s=21
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This movie was about American college football prodigy Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman trophy in 1961 - a great honor in US college football circles. Ernie Davis died at the age of 23 from Leukemia, without playing pro.


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His first starring role was when he played Jackie Robinson in the film 42. Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play MLB in modern era. Robinson broke all racial stereotypes when he started as first base for Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
https://twitter.com/45PedroMartinez/status/1299394599987884037
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I could write a 100 tweets on Robinson, but that's for some other day. The movie was titled 42 because that was the Jersey number that Robinson famously sported. What a story to have portayed by Boseman. Take this scene for example

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Coincidentally, today also happens to be celebrated as Jackie Robinson Day by MLB, for August 28th is the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963 and the date in 1945 when Branch Rickey met with Robinson to discuss his future in MLB

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1299361104259317760
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Boseman wasn't sure if he wanted to play another athlete right after 42. But agreed to take the role as Vontae Mack in Draft Day, after a Skype call he had with director Ivan Reitman. Mack was the FIRST pick in the movie's fictionalized version of the draft.

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Get On Up was Boseman's next biopic where he played the legendary godfather of soul music, James Brown. Easily one of his best roles, Chadwick Boseman trained for 2 months to learn how to sing and dance properly.

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A quote by @TheAtlantic - " Boseman played one of the 20th century’s most famous athletes and one of its greatest singers within a single year, and had given two performances that could not have been more different."

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/chadwick-boseman/615868/
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Get On Up’s non-linear plot tells that Brown’s life is too big to cover in one movie which meant that Boseman had to portray Brown from different decades and forms and he absolutely nailed it. Here's a clip from Graham Nortan where he explains it.

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His next film, Gods of Egypt, faced a lot of criticism for whitewashing. “It is clear that our casting choices should have been more diverse," Alex Proyas (the director) said. "I sincerely apologize to those who are offended by the decisions we made.”
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Boseman completely agreed with the whitewashing complaints, and later said that he still starred in the film so that there would be at least some representation for black people. He'd also said “People don’t make $140 million movies starring black and brown people.”
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Boseman's role in the film was also the most technically difficult to shoot. Since he played Thoth, the Egyptian god who can appear in many 'clones', Boseman was filmed hundreds of times from different angles. If it took other actors a day to film, it took Boseman three.
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His next film was Captain America: Civil War, but I'm going to skip all the MCU films for the purpose of this thread since his role in these films has been documented a lot. His role as T'Challa aka Black Panther will be forever emblazoned in our minds. #WakandaForever
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