'Black Panther' Director Ryan Coogler Recalls Last Call With Chadwick Boseman

‘Black Panther’ Director Ryan Coogler Recalls Last Call With Chadwick Boseman

Two years after the death of Chadwick Boseman, “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler reflects on his last conversation with the beloved late actor.

Boseman, who starred in the 2018 Marvel blockbuster as the iconic T’Challa/Black Panther, died in August 2020 at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with Colon Cancer.

“My last conversation with him was to call him and ask if he wanted to read [the script] before I get any notes from the studio,” he said during the first episode of Marvel’s Official Podcast for the movie titled, “wakanda forever,which aired on Thursday.

“That was the last time we spoke. He passed away maybe a few weeks after I finished,” he continued, referencing the script for the film’s sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.

Coogler recalled that the Emmy winner sounded “tired” during their phone conversation.

“I could tell he was lying down as we talked,” he said, adding that Boseman’s wife, Simone Ledward Boseman, was also present during their call. “He kicked Simone out because he told her he didn’t want her to hear anything that might get her in trouble with her NDA, and she didn’t want to leave, so I could tell that something happened.”

Although the script for the sequel was completed before the actor’s death, Boseman declined Coogler’s offer to preview it, telling him over the phone that “he didn’t want to get in the way of the direction in which [Marvel] studio might have.

However, Coogler revealed, “I later found out he was too tired to read anything.”

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Coogler added that at the time, Boseman was planning his wedding to Ledward and said the Marvel star “asked about my kid” because he missed the baby shower.

The filmmaker went on to detail his devastation when he learned of Boseman’s death weeks later. “I was at home,” he recalls. “I got a call from my manager Charles King.”

“He called and told me, and I didn’t want to believe it, so I called Denzel, and I talked to him, and we thought it might be a rumor, so I texted Chad, I was in denial,” Coogler shared. , referring to Denzel Washington, who was producer of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, Boseman’s last film.

“Everything about Chad was unique,” Coogler added. “How he lived and how he died was unique.”

Besides playing the Marvel superhero, Boseman was also renowned for his roles in films like “42”, “Get on Up”, “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, for which he received an award. posthumous award. Oscar nomination.

During interview with The Hollywood Reporter last year, director Coogler talked about working on the long-awaited follow-up without Boseman.

“It’s tough,” Coogler said at the time. “You have to carry on when you lose loved ones. I know Chad wouldn’t have wanted us to stop.

Instead of recasting the main character of Boseman, the film’s writers, Coogler and Joe Robert Cole decided to include T’Challa’s death in the the plot of the sequel.

The upcoming film will see the land of Wakanda mourn the loss of its leader T’Challa as a new hero steps into the superhero mantle.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is set to hit the big screen on November 11.


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