Chadwick Boseman’sBlack PanthercostarAngela Bassettremembered himat the 2021 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
Boseman, whodied in August 2020 at age 43after secretlybattling colon cancerfor four years,earned a posthumous Golden Globe nomination(his first!) for his final role inNetflix’sMa Rainey’s Black Bottom. He also picked upfour Screen Actors Guild Awards nodsthis year.
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“His work still remains with us,” Bassett, 62, toldGiuliana Rancicat theE! Live From the Red Carpetpreshow. “He was an incredible individual, man, professional, artist. All of it.”
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The actress, one of the ceremony’s presenters, also recalled how she received an honorary doctorate from Boseman’s alma mater, Howard University, before they appeared together inBlack Panther. He served as her escort for the weekend, but they never discussed it.
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“We had worked for months, sitting next to each other in the makeup trailer,” Bassett said. “He had never said anything about it. He just, I mean, he could hold his peace.”
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The mother of two added, “He’s just an incredible human being. His spirit still lives on.”
In December, Marvel Studios announced its decisionnot to recast Boseman’s roleinBlack Pantheror digitally recreate his character, King T’Challa, or Black Panther.
Angela Bassett, Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright inBlack Panther.Marvel/Disney
“I had not thought about that idea,” Bassett, who played T’Challa’s mother Wakandan Queen Ramonda, toldEntertainment Tonightearlier this year. “But of course it is Wakanda and they are, in terms of technology, they are so far ahead of the rest of the world that they would be able to bring some of that.”
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