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Mahershala Ali to play Jack Johnson in HBO series.

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Two-time Oscar winner who recently stared in Tru Detective will be portraying the legendary boxer, Jack Johnson, in the HBO series 'Unruly'.
 
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I really admire how Jack Johnson lived his life even though it was during a period that was really dark for black people. I can't wait to watch even more so that Mahershala Ali is starring as Jack Johnson.
 
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I hear he was really into white women and that added fuel to the fire!
 
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He moved to a white neighborhood where he was the only black guy. He lived his life the way he wanted and not how other people (whites especially) wanted.
 
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He knew the exact buttons to push in order to get people talking. He was a master of his art.
 
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I can't wait to get my hands on that series.
 
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Mahershala Ali has been saying over and over the years that playing Jack Johnson on screen is his dream role. Now that he has finally got it, I know he is going to straight-up murder it!
 
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I mean playing the world's first Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion is no small role. Hell, I would love to get that role if I was in the Hollywood business.
 
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Jack Johnson was one tough son of a gun. He lived a defiance life in one of the most dangerous times in the US to be a black person, the Jim Crow era!
 
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During Jim Crow's time, white people treated black people like animals. They were tough times indeed!
 

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I pretty sure 'Unruly' will be showing us how his actions created ripple waves that can still be witnessed to-date in the African-American communities' fight against injustice and racism.
 
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The matching and demonstration that we see happening nowadays, definitely have it's roots in Jack Johnson.
 
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We need more people with Jack Johnson's courage, especially now that things have gone to shit!
 
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We need more people with Jack Johnson's courage, especially now that things have gone to shit!

We need to tap into his strengths and I know it will get us through these tough times.
 
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"Unruly" will be based on the Ken Burns documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
 
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"Unruly" will be based on the Ken Burns documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

Tom Hanks production company, Playtone, will be producing the series. I can't wait to see how it all plays out.
 
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I don't think I have ever come across any Tom Hanks' project that I did not like. I am really eager to see what he does with 'Unruly'.
 
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He did almost the whole of the "Cast Away" movie alone, which went ahead to earn $429.6 million from a budget of $90 million, in the Box Office. You have to remember this was in the year 2000.
 
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Cast Away was a damn good movie. I'm not that surprised it managed to make that much at the box office. I'm sure it even beat some super-hero movies.
 
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Superhero movies do pretty well at the box office, especially MCU ones.
 

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