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Four years after the death of “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, one of the film’s architects is reflecting on how the actor changed his life.
Director Ryan Coogler told hosts of “The Breakfast Club” Monday that Boseman’s death weighed heavily on him and “Black Panther” actor Michael B. Jordan.
“Out of all of my actors, Chad’s death actually hit Mike (Jordan) the hardest,” Coogler said. Jordan, who stars in Coogler’s current project “Sinners,” acted alongside Boseman’s title superhero as Erik Killmonger in 2018’s “Black Panther.”
“Chad was older than us, he was quite a bit older than us, even though he looked like he was the same age,” Coogler said of Boseman, who died at 43 in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer. “He was a fully baked man from the South. He was an old school man’s man and compared to that dude when we worked together bro, me and Mike was kids.”
Coogler said that Boseman served as a quiet but profound teacher for them both.
“He was the kind of teacher who you never knew you was getting a lesson when he taught. It was all by example,” he said. “What he gave me and Michael was patience.”
During the filming of “Black Panther,” Boseman committed to the African accent that he used in the film, even when the cameras stopped rolling, Coogler revealed. Once, when Disney executives came for a set visit, he said, they were taken aback by his commitment to the character. But Coogler lauded the move as a testament to Boseman’s ability to “lock in” and said even now, as he directs Jordan, he asks him to think of what Boseman would do for a role.
“For Mike to see that up close, to have to do scenes across from that,” he said made Jordan a better actor.
“There won’t ever be another Chad,” Coogler said, adding that “he may be the most … brilliant actor to ever come through” Howard University.
Coogler’s newest film, “Sinners” (out April 18), chronicles twin brothers (both played by Jordan) as they return to their hometown after a fraught exit years before. It stars Hailee Steinfeld alongside Jordan, Omar Benson Miller and Li Jun Li. It marks Coogler’s eighth project with Jordan, with whom he worked on all three films in the “Creed” franchise, as well as “Fruitvale Station” and both “Black Panther” films.
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