Quote of the Day

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I haven't watched the James Brown biopic Get On Up yet - any of y'all seen it? - but I'm looking forward to a few things, chief amongst them Chadwick Boseman strutting around in that yellow jumpsuit. We'd already established that when the trailer came out. The movie's out on blu-ray this week and today lo behold and blessed be over at The Film Experience Nathaniel got to chat with Chadwick about the movie, and asked him about what's on all of our (or at least mine, anyway) minds...

Nat: Are you trying not to mention the low cut shiny jumpsuit? Weird to wear or are you basically an exhibitionist?

Chadwick: [Laughter] Two funny stories about that one. When I put it on the first time for rehearsal I was like ‘I don’t know how I’m going to walk out in this!’ Nobody had seen it except the costume designer. The whole band was rehearsing and the dancers were up there rehearsing, AJ the choreographer was working. 'I’m not stepping out until they ready with this on.' So I stepped out and Aunjanue Ellis says, "WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU HAVE ON?" It could have been the most embarrassing thing but I just had to be Mr Brown so I was just [in James Brown's voice] 'What do you mean what I got on? You see what I got on!' and strutted right into it '1...2....3!' I couldn’t think about how crazy it looked.

The second thing is after it was over and we had screened the movie for the family, his wife Deirdre comes up to me and whispers and says 'The only thing is some of those outfits weren’t tight enough [Laughter]' You know what I’m saying?!"

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