Chadwick Boseman Says 'Black Panther' Made Him "More Idealistic" | Actor Roundtable - video Dailymotion

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"That's aspirational, not just for myself, but for other people, and not just in film, but in other arenas," Boseman told the Actor Roundtable.

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00:00What was the toughest thing about doing Black Panther for you?

00:07For me, it was the fact that as a person of African descent,

00:12this searching for what my real culture is,

00:16living that and believing that space and showing that on screen

00:20and, you know, just being able to give that to an audience

00:24to say that I know so much about my past,

00:28I know so much about my history, which I, you know, as an African-American,

00:33I've searched for that my entire life.

00:35But to be a person that didn't have to search for it.

00:38What do you mean you've searched for that your whole life?

00:41Meaning you...

00:42Only being able to go so far back.

00:44Yeah, being able to go so far back.

00:46People say, you know, El Salvador, or you name a country.

00:50You know exactly where.

00:51You say Texas?

00:52Yeah.

00:53You know that's as far back as we can go, you know, or what?

00:56Having that as something that you're like, oh, not only do I know,

01:03but I value it.

01:05Like there's a certain patriotism to something that has never been lost.

01:09It's ancient.

01:11And being able to hold on to that,

01:13it was something that throughout the movie I was like, wow,

01:16the weight of that is something that I have to convey to the world.

01:21Because you could do that movie and it's a parody of that idea.

01:26And that is insulting.

01:28And so I think for me it was constantly wanting to convey that this is real

01:33because it is.

01:35You know, for me, it was just one of those things where I was like,

01:38we want to make a superhero movie, but that's not the most important thing here.

01:43And people will love the superhero movie if this other thing,

01:47if they get this other thing from it.

01:49I never thought I would see a studio say, yeah,

01:52we're going to put the money behind this movie with all,

01:55well, basically, you know, mostly a black cast.

01:58Sometimes we have, as African-Americans, we have the black version.

02:02And it's never as good.

02:05It never put as much into it.

02:08And so it made me, you know, more idealistic.

02:13And I think that's aspirational for not just myself,

02:16but for other people and not just in film, but in, you know, other arenas.

02:21Did you think the odds were against you growing up in South Carolina?

02:24It wasn't even a possibility.

02:26Like, you know, there was nobody.

02:28My brother actually was into the arts.

02:31He did musical theater.

02:33He danced.

02:34And so because he did that, I think I saw it as a possibility.

02:39But other than him, nobody around me saw that as a, you know, viable career.

02:46I think you should only do it if you love it,

02:49because it's not all the glitz and glamour people think it is.

02:52It's really a blue-collar job.

02:54And you work overtime.

02:57You sweat.

02:58You get hurt.

02:59You're an athlete.

03:00You're everything that is necessary.

03:03And you're pulling from things that most people don't usually deal with.

03:07You're dealing with political parts of your reality, social parts of your reality,

03:11race in a way people don't have to deal with,

03:13gender in a way people don't have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

03:16And I think you have to want to go through that struggle.

03:18And I feel the same way about my work at that point in time as I do when my movie makes a hundred million dollars.

03:27Or a billion dollars.

03:28Or a billion dollars.

03:28How has the lack of privacy changed your life?

03:38Chad drank some water on that door.

03:40Who wants to go first?

03:46I think Chad probably has it the most intense.

03:48Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Chad.

03:50It's insane.

03:52Is that good or bad?

03:53Ultimately, there are certain things that you cherish about your normal life that are different and you're not comfortable with, obviously.

04:05But at the end of the day, I've always been very close to my family.

04:09I've always, like, really cherished my friends and it just makes you do it more.

04:14And you just can't complain about it.

04:16You take as many pictures as you can.

04:19You sign as many autographs as you can.

04:22And when it feels to you that you've given enough of yourself away, then you go, okay, that's it.

04:30And people will get upset at times.

04:32People will say, hey, you know, I supported you.

04:36Right, you've been in the rain for three hours waiting for him.

04:38But then I go, wait, you supported me when I was broke?

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