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Fresh from being snapped back to reality, Chadwick Boseman is heading to 16th century Japan to play Yasuke, the first man from Africa to become a samurai—though actual historical proof of his existence is slim, so it’s unclear if he literally held the title “samurai” or if he just did the stuff a samurai would do and didn’t get the title, like an unpaid intern working a 40-hour week. This comes from Deadline, which explains that Yasuke arrived in Japan as a slave to Jesuit missionaries, supposedly making him the first black man to ever set foot in Japan. That helped him catch the eye of famous daimyō Oda Nobunaga, who later hired Yasuke as his weapon bearer and presented him with the requisite swords of a samurai.