EW’s film critic pays tribute to the groundbreaking, brilliantly talented late actor.
And Jackie Robinson, there was no way in the world I wasn’t going to do that."
But that’s not exactly what he was.
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He was much more than that.
He was a complete human being."
It also may be true that those were simply the roles made available to him.)
Yet you are young, gifted and Black.
We know what it’s like to be the tail and not the head.
We know what it’s like to be beneath and not above."
“That is what we went to work with every day,” he continued.
We knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world."
Over and over, that is the essence of what Boseman did on screen.
Additional reporting by Chancellor Agard.
