At age 42, wearing black skin that get many disadvantages in Hollywood, Chadwick Boseman hardly expected to become the center of the world as the super black hero.
By becoming the first superhero to appear on the cover of Time magazine, the black superhero has his first personal film in film history, actor Chadwick Boseman and his Black Panther role are creating the extraordinary achievements in Hollywood.
The success of the Black Panther has helped Chadwick Boseman have been living days differently throughout his career for over 10 years. However, what Chadwick Boseman wants to pursue is not just the glory of the big screen, but also the voice of enough weight to continue the fighting for black racial equality.
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| Chadwick Boseman is enjoying great moments after the unexpected success of the Black Panther blockbuster. |
Receive the role of Black Panther only after a phone call
Chadwick Boseman was born in Georgia and grew up in Anderson, in a small business family with no artistic background. He graduated from Howard University and studied at the American Academy of Arts in Oxford. By 2008, Boseman moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and director and scriptwriter.
He had his first starring role as the legendary football player Floyd Little in the movie The Express (2008) directed by Gary Fleders. By 2013, he has made a breakthrough in his career as he played the role of legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biopic movie 42 (2013). Soon after, Hollywood continued to welcome him as the great musician James Brown on Get On Up (2014).
In the same year, Boseman was also named Time Top 10 for Best Actor of the Year in 2014 and received the Virtuous Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Boseman officially joined the Marvel Cinema Universe (MCU) and launched the Black Panther superhero in Captain America: Civil War in May 2016. Especially Boseman nodded to the role after a phone call.
From the early MCU actors such as Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth must go through casting process but to Boseman, the process of casting and choossing role takes place only in one day.
"An employee suggested Chadwick Boseman at the actor selection meeting, the producer contacted him shortly after. Boseman took the phone and agreed as soon as he was asked without hesitation, "said Kevin Feige, director of Marvel Studios.
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| Boseman nodded to receive Black Panther super hero role after a phone call. |
Maybe this is the long-awaited Chadwick Boseman call, a heavy voice role, with a special status in a blockbuster series that's been waiting around the world. As an actor from the school of art, coming up from the mainstream acting path, more than anyone else, Chadwick Boseman understands the harshness and discrimination that Hollywood has for black people.
"Hollywood's search for black people is far more rare than the selection of white actors. Central roles, lots of land, lots of good movies are what whites are always, and people of color are not given the opportunity, "said the 42-year-old actor.
After an impressive appearance with the Avengers, perhaps his biggest surprise was his Black Panther character, which MCU had been producing for his own film, with a lot of investment and care on image, content. The great effect of culture, thought from the Black Panther brings something that he never thought of.
Obsessive with harsh racial discrimination
As of now, Chadwick Boseman is still obsessed with the death of a friend in middle school. A bullet from a white man took the life of his friend, a black student, only by thinking "hate black skin".
Witnessing himself his friend killed because of racial discrimination, than anyone else Chadwick Boseman is clearly aware that this is a struggle he has to commit himself to.
"After that, it was not important for me to play basketball or participate in extracurricular activities. I want to raise my voice more forcefully against the already overwhelming discrimination, "said Chadwick Boseman.
Since then, instead of enjoying adolescence as many of his peers, he soon realizes himself must have greater responsibility. Determined to study at the art academy, he devotes himself to finding cinematic projects that are heavy enough to convey the story of racial equality. He also wanted to write his own scripts around the topic of people of color.
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| Chadwick Boseman has never forgotten the death of his friend when he was hated because of his black skin. |
Not only is the obsession with the bullet story of a white man killing his friend, Boseman himself is also a victim of racism in American schools. In black skin, he is often chased beaten by his friends, bullied and called "barbarians."
"When I was at the Civil War studio, wearing black Panther superhuman outfits, there were thousands of people dying in protest, firing guns," said Boseman in the Rolling Stones.
Like the king T'Challa who is responsible for taking over Wakanda, Boseman also carries the spirit of meaningful work, influencing the community, diminishing the distinction of skin color.
Black Panther must have somewhat satisfied the Chadwick Boseman when not only building on the big screen successfully an image of different and impressive black superhero but also draw a true picture of the featured culture of black continent that beauty like a dream where the colored people are able to assert their power.
Take advantage of the 'Black Panther' power
Despite of his brown skin of the Africans but Chadwick Boseman is still American and he has not even come to his hometown.
So, to take on the role of Black Panther, a king of the African fantasy kingdom of Wakanda, the Boseman decided to go to South Africa twice before shooting to touch native people. He learned way to convers, how to walk, and learned about the traditions and culture of the people of color here.
"I want to ensure the authenticity of African martial arts moves to use them in telling the story of Wakanda. The martial arts instructors totally agree with my point of view. Sometimes we feel like we are being trained to take on a real battle, "the actor shared.
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| The main characteristics of the black continent are reflected vividly in the Black Panther. |
It's not just postures of Martial art Chadwick Boseman with his "main role" power, he wants the movie to change their view of the voices of the characters. According to the original, Wakanda people speaks Xhosa, the official language of South Africa on the film, although it is spoken in English but still follows the tone of Xhosa.
Initially, the filmmaker was reluctant to think that this would hinder the mass audience. "Why can we watch English movies in Irish or Cockney tone, but not in African?", With this argument, Boseman persuaded the Black Panther crew.
Because of the almost exactly transmission of what most tradition in culture of color people, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther's image is more alive, more authentic. According to him, the Black Panther is different from the other main heroes partly in politics and tradition elementarries.
"I expect the audience to applaud after watching this movie. I believe the film has contributed to changing the view on people of color and the image of a superhero on the big screen.
Audiences will see a different super hero, a greater responsibility to shoulder the whole nation, not just ethnic color. I believe that is what they have been waiting for for so long, "Chadwick Boseman told Variety.
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| Chadwick Boseman wants to use the power of the "Black Panther" to clear the line of racial discrimination in real life. |
After the success of Black Panther, he will be re-released in Avengers: Infinity War, the biggest blockbuster of MCU will debut in May. And whether MCU will continue to produce next part of Black Panther is not foretelled.
However, according to Boseman, if it can continue to prolong Black War's war on the big screen, what he cares about must still be a special story significantly in the journey to eradicate color skin boundaries on film as well in real life.
Because he wanted to enjoy the true "power" of the superhero of the Black Panther to spread racial equality thought throughout the world.
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