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"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

 

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Way too young.

It is a double whammy for me as right after I saw this news I got an email from a cousin. Another cousin was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer in early August. She went to MD Anderson where they said her cancer was treatable. Unfortunately, her body began to shut down and she passed away Thursday after 6 days in their ICU. She was not even 40, and had just finished her emergency room residency (she went back to med school later after living abroad for a while). We weren't close, but it's a gut punch. Way too young.

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43 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

Saw this very early this morning.  Really just awful and when my son finds out he is going to be devastated, Black Panther is his favorite.  Fuck cancer, fuck 2020.

Yeah, I haven’t told my 9-year-old Avenger-worshiping son yet. Before I heard the news, he actually asked if we could watch Black Panther last night because he hadn’t seen it in a while.

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2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

I can barely fathom the strength and humility required to keep his condition as close to the vest as he did for so long as a celebrity of his stature in today's social media world.

As great as he was in 42 and as BP he was INCREDIBLE as James Brown!   Immense talent.   Immense strength to do a number of those movies while fighting through surgery and chemo.   All the appearances he had to make (particularly for BP) he never showed anything but grace and appreciation for love he was shown and the ability to share his talent with us.    Fucking sucks not only for his family but for all of us as we've been robbed of all the great performances he could have given us.

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5 hours ago, aggie08 said:

I can barely fathom the strength and humility required to keep his condition as close to the vest as he did for so long as a celebrity of his stature in today's social media world.

Yeah, plenty of celebs would have been live-blogging their illness for the last 4 years, looking to generate as much attention and sympathy as they could.  Amazing dignity.

It was a bit of a gut punch when I started seeing discussions and photos/vidoes showing how many kids with cancer he's visited over the past 3-4 years.  He even gave an interview talking about how he wanted to finish the first Black Panther because there were some kids with cancer doing poorly, and he wanted them to see it.  Now knowing that he was visiting all those kids, when everything about those visits would have been a stark reminder of his own struggles with cancer.....I need to dust the room.

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His life was short, but it was a life well-lived. We should all aspire to positively affect people on a daily basis like he did. That he was, by every account, a great human being should be remembered even more than his acting roles. He was great at his profession, but gosh that he did so much for people while privately battling cancer speaks to who he was. We need more folks like him. 

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No. It was announced but hadn’t started filming yet. I’m not sure how they’ll proceed. I highly doubt they recast T’Challa out of respect for what Chadwick brought to the role. Reminds me a bit of Carrie Fisher dying before the final Star Wars movie. A sad reality is I think he was poised to be the face of Marvel going forward. 
 

We watched 42 tonight with the kids. Wife and I plan to watch Get On Up in the next few days. 

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A sad reality is I think he was poised to be the face of Marvel going forward. 

Based on the comics and where they seemed to be going with the movies, Black Panther was pretty much taking over kind of a hybrid between the Captain America and Iron Man roles - the moral compass, but also the Guy Who Gets Shit Done on Earth.   Thor was the only one of the original trilogy who was continuing on.  Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and Thor and the Guardians were taking things into a more cosmic area, and BP would have been running the Avengers on Earth.

The thinking from a friend who works on one of the major comic book sites is that his sister will become the new Black Panther (BP is a title of sorts, and it's happened in the comics).  They can even have his character go off and do cosmic shit as a way of explaining things.

He does think they will handle this much better and more respectful than they handled Carrie's death, because Feige calls the shot, and he's no Kathleen Kennedy.

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My 7 year-old is going as BP for Halloween, in whatever form it takes shape.   He's never seen any of the Marvel movies (saving them for when he's a year or two older), just the tamer animated series/movies, but this really bothered him.   I'm not going to correct him, no need to, and so I'm now hitting up Amazon.

By the way, they don't make BP costumes for adults or need to drop 15-20 pounds.  

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saw that he was diagnosed with stage THREE cancer in 2016, yet he fought through and filmed at least 3 Marvel movies, if not 4 after he was diagnosed, plus he filmed at least FIVE other movies, including Thurgood since he was diagnosed.   Thats unbelieveable.

usually stage 3 cancer has a 15% 5 year survival rate.

So he was diagnosed, and knew that he only had a 15% chance to be alive in 5 years and still trained and performed for those 8 or 9 movies while fighting this disease quietly and without fanfare...

Fuck man you were awesome, forget being an icon because you played BP... you are an icon for doing all that while fighting cancer.

 

RIP to a fantastic actor.

 

Wakanda Forever sir.

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On 8/29/2020 at 10:33 PM, AUS-97HORN said:

saw that he was diagnosed with stage THREE cancer in 2016, yet he fought through and filmed at least 3 Marvel movies, if not 4 after he was diagnosed, plus he filmed at least FIVE other movies, including Thurgood since he was diagnosed.   Thats unbelieveable.

usually stage 3 cancer has a 15% 5 year survival rate.

So he was diagnosed, and knew that he only had a 15% chance to be alive in 5 years and still trained and performed for those 8 or 9 movies while fighting this disease quietly and without fanfare...

Fuck man you were awesome, forget being an icon because you played BP... you are an icon for doing all that while fighting cancer.

 

RIP to a fantastic actor.

 

Wakanda Forever sir.

 

100% also saw that he had been called out by people saying he looked tired or lacked energy in interviews and other times. Not literally just destroying trolls and journalists by dropping the bomb he was fighting stage 3/4 colon cancer to shut them up shows how strong and amazing he really was. 

Fuck. RIP. 

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Disney didn't know he was sick

On Aug. 28, Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige received an urgent email regarding Chadwick Boseman, with no further information. Unbeknownst to anyone at the studio, the Black Panther star had been battling colon cancer privately for four-plus years and had taken a sudden turn for the worse. By the time Feige read the message an hour later, Boseman already had died, sending shock waves through Disney and the tight-knit Marvel Cinematic Universe.

A source close to Boseman tells The Hollywood Reporter that the 43-year-old actor, who had become noticeably thin in recent months, was convinced until about a week before his death that he was going to beat cancer and would be able to gain the weight back for a Black Panther sequel that was scheduled to go into production in March. The actor was even set to prepare for the new film beginning in September.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-grapples-with-how-to-proceed-on-black-panther-without-chadwick-boseman

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