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Aug 29, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
My Chadwick Boseman Story:

In 2014, while interning in DC, I got to go to a promotional event for his new movie ‘Get On Up.’

Before the event started there was a happy hour in the lobby, and everyone was awkwardly standing around mingling. (1/5)
I kept thinking one of the guys we were standing with was the dude I’d seen in the trailer, but I thought there was no way he wasn’t on the red carpet, or swarmed by people, so I just kinda let it be.
(2/5)
Eventually, I just said “Excuse me, not to be weird, but are you one of the guys in this movie?” And he was just casually like “Yeah, I’m Chadwick, what’s up?” As if him being a movie star was as normal as me being a Hill intern. (3/5)
To make it even better, the women in the circle gasped, making it clear that he hadn’t mentioned who he was to them the entire time they were all talking.

He failed to mention in that time that the event we were all at was literally for the movie he was starring in. (4/5)
Eventually some staff members had to come and ASK him to stand on the red carpet so people could take pictures of him.

It’s just a little thing he did, but I always remembered it, and I think it says something about the kind of man he was.

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