Chadwick Boseman honoured with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously
The ‘Black Panther’ star passed away in 2020 at the age of 43, after a 4-year long private battle with colon cancer
Chadwick Boseman was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday. The Black Panther star passed away in 2020 at the age of 43 after battling colon cancer for four years.
Ryan Coogler, who directed the 2018 hit starring Boseman, and the actor’s widow, Simone Ledward-Boseman, were accompanied by his co-stars Viola Davis, Letitia Wright and Michael B. Jordan as they led the ceremony and gave heartfelt tributes.
“Today was beautiful day,” Ledward-Boseman told AFP. “Everyone was just so full of love and joy. And we’re all so proud of this person that we knew, that we shared.”
Coogler remembered Boseman as an “incredibly generous” person.
“Even when he knew his days were limited, and his moments were numbered, he still gave to the art form. He still threw himself into the fire,” he reflected, adding how “Even though he was going through what he was going through, he would do his own stunts, he would be there for off-camera dialogue readings”.
Boseman’s iconic character T’Challa, was introduced in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, two years before he reprised the role and became the first black actor to lead a Marvel franchise in Black Panther.
Boseman’s final project was 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom alongside Davis, according to whom the late actor’s work “reminded us that we are less alone.”
“That was Chadwick, more than just an actor who you can observe on screen doing wonderful work”, she said.
