https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman/status/1299530165463199747

Colon Cancer

Can't believe it

Mom just had surgery for it.

Sorry to hear he didn't make it.

I actually cursed at him...it was so hard to grasp. Man, I can’t even deal, anymore.

*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

FUCK CANCER

Rest in Power. Prayers to families, friends, and fans. My gosh.

i know a lot of people used to comment on his appearance but he never even said a word about it publicly.

it was so obvious in hindsight.

damn man rip.

Just feel sick. He was just getting started.

Too young. Way too young. Fuck.

Rest in peace. Thank you for your work.

Damn this one hits hard, really hard, he was young, having such a great career, and better things ahead, and now finding out he died of cancer just seems so unreal, especially to see another born & raised South Carolina person make it big I felt proud, and now he's gone.

I was so hyped for the next "Black Panther" movie & that
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" joint too, damn God seems to be taking too many legendary people this year, 2020 is going down as the worst year in decades.

REST IN POWER to Chadwick Boseman for reals dun dun, damn.

https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman/status/1293330682119421953

i thought he looked sick but i figured he just had to lose weight for some role as actors often do.

RIP. gone too soon.

This news is so whack. We COPE with all of this bullshit mainly through escapism and jokes. What do we have when our fiction gets rocked like this?

Fiction gon continue to fic

He seemed like he would be the Millenial Denzel - an actor who could play any part and do it phenomenally.

Just so sad.

RIP

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1299538793377140736

this shit legit brought tears to my eyes.

4 years and this man was acting
press touring
whole thing
with cancer



wild.

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1299537944714383360

>https://twitter.com/chadwickboseman/status/1299530165463199747
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>Colon Cancer
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>Can't believe it

This sucks so much. And looking back, he looked ‘cancer/chemo’ small. I saw it with my pops too so I should’ve smelled a rat. RIP.

https://twitter.com/kvrlvshivns__/status/1299542060366663680

knowing what he was going thru himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-D86wfxiE

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It's plenty of money to be made
from Candler Road to Bankhead
It's plenty of room to get paid
for those that ain't scared

RIP

I'd previously searched his bday and even searched it again right after the news hit with everyone was saying he was 43, and it was '77. I guess everybody had it wrong.
Even the IMBD and Biography link previews in the google search still say '77 before you click, but say '76 once you click them.
43 it is.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEdWTTlDysD/?igshid=1q8x3ud8eql6n

“It was meant to be for Chadwick and me to be connected, for us to be family. But what many don’t know is our story began long before his historic turn as Black Panther. During the premiere party for Black Panther, Chadwick reminded me of something. He whispered that when I received my honorary degree from Howard University, his alma mater, he was the student assigned to escort me that day. And here we were, years later as friends and colleagues, enjoying the most glorious night ever! We’d spent weeks prepping, working, sitting next to each other every morning in makeup chairs, preparing for the day together as mother and son. I am honored that we enjoyed that full circle experience. This young man’s dedication was awe-inspiring, his smile contagious, his talent unreal. So I pay tribute to a beautiful spirit, a consummate artist, a soulful brother...”thou aren’t not dead but flown afar...”. All you possessed, Chadwick, you freely gave. Rest now, sweet prince.” #WakandaForever

said with no irony.


peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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Guess there’s still a lil decency left in Hollywood....

Peace to his family.

Inbox: ABC will air Black Panther commercial free tonight, to be followed by an ABC News special celebrating the life of Chadwick Boseman.

https://twitter.com/alexweprin/status/1300035362555940866

And the 1st time was absolutely fantastic.

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https://twitter.com/MeeshUniVerSoul


welp

And somehow his most impactful role was a fictional hero... Kinda crazy to think about. Reading that headline was like a punch in the chest. RIP

https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/marvel-studios-black-panther-director-ryan-coogler-on-the-legacy-of-chadwick-boseman


Published August 30, 2020

Marvel Studios' 'Black Panther' Director Ryan Coogler Full Statement on the Legacy of Chadwick Boseman

"He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was. He was an epic firework display."


BY RYAN COOGLER


Before sharing my thoughts on the passing of the great Chadwick Boseman, I first offer my condolences to his family who meant so very much to him. To his wife, Simone, especially.

I inherited Marvel and the Russo Brothers’ casting choice of T’Challa. It is something that I will forever be grateful for. The first time I saw Chad’s performance as T’Challa, it was in an unfinished cut of CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR. I was deciding whether or not directing BLACK PANTHER was the right choice for me. I’ll never forget, sitting in an editorial suite on the Disney Lot and watching his scenes. His first with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, then, with the South African cinema titan, John Kani as T’Challa’s father, King T’Chaka. It was at that moment I knew I wanted to make this movie. After Scarlett’s character leaves them, Chad and John began conversing in a language I had never heard before. It sounded familiar, full of the same clicks and smacks that young black children would make in the States. The same clicks that we would often be chided for being disrespectful or improper. But, it had a musicality to it that felt ancient, powerful, and African.

In my meeting after watching the film, I asked Nate Moore, one of the producers of the film, about the language. “Did you guys make it up?” Nate replied, “that’s Xhosa, John Kani’s native language. He and Chad decided to do the scene like that on set, and we rolled with it.” I thought to myself. “He just learned lines in another language, that day?” I couldn’t conceive how difficult that must have been, and even though I hadn’t met Chad, I was already in awe of his capacity as actor.

I learned later that there was much conversation over how T’Challa would sound in the film. The decision to have Xhosa be the official language of Wakanda was solidified by Chad, a native of South Carolina, because he was able to learn his lines in Xhosa, there on the spot. He also advocated for his character to speak with an African accent, so that he could present T’Challa to audiences as an African king, whose dialect had not been conquered by the West.

I finally met Chad in person in early 2016, once I signed onto the film. He snuck past journalists that were congregated for a press junket I was doing for CREED, and met with me in the green room. We talked about our lives, my time playing football in college, and his time at Howard studying to be a director, about our collective vision for T’Challa and Wakanda. We spoke about the irony of how his former Howard classmate Ta-Nehisi Coates was writing T’Challa’s current arc with Marvel Comics. And how Chad knew Howard student Prince Jones, who’s murder by a police officer inspired Coates’ memoir Between The World and Me.

I noticed then that Chad was an anomaly. He was calm. Assured. Constantly studying. But also kind, comforting, had the warmest laugh in the world, and eyes that seen much beyond his years, but could still sparkle like a child seeing something for the first time.

That was the first of many conversations. He was a special person. We would often speak about heritage and what it means to be African. When preparing for the film, he would ponder every decision, every choice, not just for how it would reflect on himself, but how those choices could reverberate. “They not ready for this, what we are doing…” “This is Star Wars, this is Lord of the Rings, but for us… and bigger!” He would say this to me while we were struggling to finish a dramatic scene, stretching into double overtime. Or while he was covered in body paint, doing his own stunts. Or crashing into frigid water, and foam landing pads. I would nod and smile, but I didn’t believe him. I had no idea if the film would work. I wasn’t sure I knew what I was doing. But I look back and realize that Chad knew something we all didn’t. He was playing the long game. All while putting in the work. And work he did.

He would come to auditions for supporting roles, which is not common for lead actors in big budget movies. He was there for several M’Baku auditions. In Winston Duke’s, he turned a chemistry read into a wrestling match. Winston broke his bracelet. In Letitia Wright’s audition for Shuri, she pierced his royal poise with her signature humor, and would bring about a smile to T’Challa’s face that was 100% Chad.

While filming the movie, we would meet at the office or at my rental home in Atlanta, to discuss lines and different ways to add depth to each scene. We talked costumes, military practices. He said to me “Wakandans have to dance during the coronations. If they just stand there with spears, what separates them from Romans?” In early drafts of the script. Eric Killmonger’s character would ask T’Challa to be buried in Wakanda. Chad challenged that and asked, what if Killmonger asked to be buried somewhere else?

Chad deeply valued his privacy, and I wasn’t privy to the details of his illness. After his family released their statement, I realized that he was living with his illness the entire time I knew him. Because he was a caretaker, a leader, and a man of faith, dignity and pride, he shielded his collaborators from his suffering. He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was. He was an epic firework display. I will tell stories about being there for some of the brilliant sparks till the end of my days. What an incredible mark he’s left for us.

I haven’t grieved a loss this acute before. I spent the last year preparing, imagining and writing words for him to say, that we weren’t destined to see. It leaves me broken knowing that I won’t be able to watch another close-up of him in the monitor again or walk up to him and ask for another take.

It hurts more to know that we can’t have another conversation, or facetime, or text message exchange. He would send vegetarian recipes and eating regimens for my family and me to follow during the pandemic. He would check in on me and my loved ones, even as he dealt with the scourge of cancer.

In African cultures we often refer to loved ones that have passed on as ancestors. Sometimes you are genetically related. Sometimes you are not. I had the privilege of directing scenes of Chad’s character, T’Challa, communicating with the ancestors of Wakanda. We were in Atlanta, in an abandoned warehouse, with bluescreens, and massive movie lights, but Chad’s performance made it feel real. I think it was because from the time that I met him, the ancestors spoke through him. It’s no secret to me now how he was able to skillfully portray some of our most notable ones. I had no doubt that he would live on and continue to bless us with more. But it is with a heavy heart and a sense of deep gratitude to have ever been in his presence, that I have to reckon with the fact that Chad is an ancestor now. And I know that he will watch over us, until we meet again.

- Ryan Coogler

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peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

MCU joints. It's not my favorite (top 3 for sure tho). But I just happened to be watching Ultron when I got the news about it, then I watched some of BP last night on ABC, before coming across this) and the extra effort, care and SWAG just oozes off the screen

definitely shocked me

Interesting trivia

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