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Director Brian Helgeland recently chatted with Variety for the 20th anniversary of his rock music-flavored medieval film A Knight’s Tale, which starred the late Heath Ledger.
But Helgeland also spoke about another gifted actor he worked with who died far too soon: Chadwick Boseman.
Helgeland cast a then-unknown Boseman in his first lead role, as Jackie Robinson in the film 42, and the filmmaker recalled his first meeting, which was at the recommendation of his casting director, Victoria Thomas.
“e was the second person I saw,” recalls Helgeland. “He walked in the door, he read, he left. And I said to Vicki, ‘A movie star just walked out of the room.’
“She said, ‘Yeah,
