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(Though he was also, it should be said, consistently one of the best-dressed men on any red carpet, a low-key dandy who seemed to take a kind of unspoiled joy in the pure, far-out exuberance of fashion).Instead he went to the mat for the causes he believed in, like Black Lives Matter and children’s charities, and put everything else into the work: In his mainstream breakout, 2013’s 42, he brought fierce, indomitable dignity to the role of Hall of Famer Robinson, the first man to break baseball’s color lines; only a year later he was electric as James Brown in Get On Up, a live wire with metronome hips and a six-inch pompadour.Those roles, along with Marshall, cemented his status as a leading man, or at least the go-to for a certain kind of ambitious awards-circuit biopic. That Boseman achieved nearly all of this after the age of 35 feels like far less a testament to the arc of his talent than to the depressingly familiar contours of Hollywood and race — an issue he addressed with characteristic grace while accepting a SAG Award for Panther early last year.
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