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TIL that Chadwick Boseman wrote a play in 2005 called Deep Azure. It was written in lyrical verse and focused on a young black woman dealing with an eating disorder in the wake of her fiance's death. Boseman turned it into a screenplay in 2008, and wanted to eventually direct it.

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