tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- james franco chadwick boseman musical guest, jenny lewis and featuring the legendary roots crew. and now, here he is, jimmy fallon! ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: welcome. thank you for being here. thank you so much for being here. welcome to "the tonight show," everybody. here's what everyone is talking about. this is pretty big. the "new york times" just published an editorial calling on the federal government to legalize recreational marijuana. [ cheers and applause ] the "new york times." they don't reall care about weed, it's just the only way they can keep selling papers. [ laughter ] you don't have to read it, you can roll it, use it however you want. the "new york times" wants the government to legalize marijuana. even weirder, "high times" is calling on the u.n. to broker a a two-state solution in the middle east. [ laughter ] >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: so, i don't know what's going on. the oddest weekend, yeah. like a freaky friday. >> steve: freaky friday. >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: dude! >> jimmy: the "new york times" says the government

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tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- james franco chadwick boseman musical guest, jenny lewis

. >> chadwick boseman, got to see you. >> good morning. >> i watched that clip.onvinced to do it. >> yeah. when i first saw the script i was like i'm not even going to open it and read it. there's no way i'm playing james brown. >> why? >> just because i knew that the skillset was so difficult, the dancing and singing. i said i don't know who they're going to get to do that. and i also felt like, you know, there's been a lot of parody in jokes that have been made and i didn't know how you could find the real man and get away from what people already thought about him. >> was there a piece of it you just came off playing jackie robinson. you didn't want to go from iconic historical character to iconic historical character? >> that was the real reason. my team, we weren't looking for another biopic, period. when you do one thing, you get sent a whole bunch of biopics. yesterday i was sent two. >> we didn't want to get in that kind of a groove. you had to ask yourself and you mentioned this, at some point can i pull off those legendary dance moves? what went into le