Yo, today's QLT is the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

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Welcome back to the Quotid the Day Show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Croxin.com.

Today we honor the late actor Chadwick Boseman who passed away a couple weeks ago.

He's going to share a story today. This is at the Howard University commencement. He's going to

share a story about a conflict that he ran into early in his acting career and how he navigated

that situation as it's such a good talk. I hope you enjoyed here's Chadwick.

I was on a roll when I entered the system of entertainment, theater, television, and film.

In my first New York audition for a professional play I landed the lead role.

From that play I got my first agent. From that agent I got an on-screen audition. It was a

so proper. It wasn't third watch. It was a so proper on a major network. I scored that role too.

I felt like Mike Tyson when he first came on the scene knocking out opponents in the first round.

With this so proper gig I was already promised to make six figures more money than I had ever seen.

I was filling myself. But once I got the first script and was so proper

that I was in the first place. You very often get the script the night before and you shoot the whole

episode in one day with little to no time to prepare. Once I saw the role I was playing, I found myself

conflicted. The role wasn't necessarily stereotypical. A young man in his formative years with a violent

streak pulled into the allure of gang involvement. That's somebody's real story. Never judge the

actors you play. That's what we were always taught. That's the first rule of acting. Any role

played honestly can be empowering. But I was conflicted because this role seemed to be wrapped

up in assumptions about us as Blackfold. The writing failed to search for specificity. Plus there

was barely a glimpse of positivity or talent in the character. Barely a glimpse of hope. I would

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