THR Cover: Chadwick Boseman's agent Michael Green reflects on his longtime client's higher purpose in acting: 'He always made sure of the integrity, the ethics, the roles'
September 02, 2020, 6:00am PDT
We talked almost every day, about why to take a role and how important it was if he was taking a part. Even with, they offered James Brown to him and he said,"No, I want to test for it." And they were like,"What are you talking about? We’re offering it to you." He said,"No, no. I want to make sure that you all think that I can do this because I have to do my own dancing." Two weeks later, we saw a tape and it was like,"Oh, yes, you can.
The amount of time that we strategized over whether he should do a role for the better of humanity — it was always about utilizing his platform."How can I give back? How will this be valuable to the Black community, and the community at large?" He was always,"What will I be able to tell through this role?" That’s how we chose almost all his roles. Somebody once said,"He’s playing a lot of biopic people." We said,"It didn’t hurt Leonardo DiCaprio.
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