Like Jackie Robinson, '42' star accepts risks  2013-04-09
19:18:09  Writer-director Brian Helgeland invited 30 actors to
audition for the role of Dodger legend Jackie Robinson in the
film "42," which opens Friday.  He need not have bothered.
Chadwick Boseman was the second actor on that list, and
Helgeland said he knew immediately that he had found his star.
"When he left, I turned to the casting director and said,
'That's the guy.'"  The casting director reminded him that there
were 28 more actors to look at, but Helgeland shook his head.
"He just set the bar very high," the director said of Boseman,
"and I don't think anyone can get over the bar."  Helgeland, who
won an Oscar in 1998 for writing the screenplay for "L.A.
Confidential," said all the actors had to perform four scenes
from the movie during the auditions, and the most daunting takes
place in the tunnel leading to the Dodgers' dugout when Robinson
smashes a bat after being pummeled by racial epithets at a game.
"All of the actors saved it for