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Hollywood Remembers Chadwick Boseman, an Icon Gone in His Prime
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wmagazine.comChadwick Boseman was on the verge of giving up acting completely after a decade of work in television and theater that garnered no major breakthrough roles.
Then, at the age of 36, Boseman landed the role of Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in the MLB, in the biopic 42 after auditioning for the role twice.
With the film, Boseman proved Hollywood was shortsighted in relegating him to bit parts in network procedurals for all those years.
He'd follow up his performance as Robinson quickly by playing James Brown in the 2015 biopic Get On Up and Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in a 2017 biopic.
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