Chadwick Boseman embraced the challenge of portraying larger-than-life people with grace, soon becoming an icon and hero himself — both on-screen in BlackPanther and off. Rest in peace, King. Our special tribute:
, out earlier this summer, he exuded a kind of innate elegance and emotional intelligence; a quiet force that consistently compelled the story to rise up to meet him.
That Boseman achieved nearly all of this after the age of 35 feels like far less a testament to the arc of his talent than to the depressingly familiar contours of Hollywood and race — an issue he addressed with characteristic grace early last year. “To be young, gifted and Black,” he said from the stage, surrounded in the collective glow of his costars. “We all know what it’s like to be told that there is not a place for you to be featured. Yet you are young, gifted and Black.
“That is what we went to work with every day,” he continued. “Because we knew — not that it would be around during awards season or that it would make a billion dollars. We knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world.” Over and over, that is the essence of what Boseman did on screen. And he’ll likely do it at least once more, in a coming adaptation of the prize-winning August Wilson play , due on Netflix later this year. It’s impossible, though, not to feel the immense loss of everything that will never be now — the untold parts left to play and countless doors still unopened. His performances, an indelible legacy, will stay; the man who made them left us far too soon.
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