There are certain challenges to any actor who wants to give an accurate portrayal of James Brown. Such were the obstacles facing Chadwick Boseman, who plays the Godfather of Soul in the just ...

Chadwick Boseman has become something of a perpetual motion machine, but if you watch old videos of James Brown, the rhythmic restlessness is one of the first things you’ll notice about the ...

Boseman does it. Amazingly, he nails the moves — the way Brown would twirl and jitter and shimmy and slice, as if dancing on hot coals. And Boseman, offstage, does an altogether uncanny job of ...

Chadwick Boseman is not crazy.He says so himself. Even makes a pretty convincing case for his sanity.Still, he agreed to play James Brown in the biopic of the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, … ...

To play James Brown, the hardest-working man in show business, Get on Up star Chadwick Boseman took an appropriately industrious approach. “The man did his homework,” Jill Scott, who plays ...

Boseman's portrayal of baseball legend Jackie Robinson in 42 last year drew plenty of applause. His transformation into James Brown, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, could land him on the ...

Chadwick Boseman channels James Brown on 'Get On Up' set in this feature by HitFix's Daniel Fienberg, writing from the Natchez, Mississippi production. "Get On Up" opens on August 1, 2014.

But critics who’ve gotten an early look at “ Get On Up,” a biography of James Brown from “The Help’s” Tate Taylor, suggest that Chadwick Boseman’s performance as the Hardest Working ...

For last year’s “42,” Chadwick Boseman had to learn to play baseball like Jackie Robinson. For “Get On Up,” out Friday, he had to learn to perform like James Brown.

NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) --Chadwick Boseman admits there was no easy part to playing funk music legend James Brown in the biopic Get On Up. "The entire thing was a challenge," the 37-year-old actor ...