Denzel Washington, who once paid Chadwick Boseman's tuition for a summer acting program, released a statement saluting the late 'Black Panther' star.
saluting Washington, who once paid his tuition for a summer acting program while Boseman was attending Howard University.
“Many of you already know the story that Mr. Washington was asked by Phylicia Rashad to join her in assisting nine theater students from Howard University who had been accepted to a summer acting program at the British Academy of Dramatic Acting in Oxford,” Boseman said in his tribute. “As fate would have it, I was one of the students that he paid for. Imagine receiving the letter that your tuition for that summer was paid for and that your benefactor was none other than the dopest actor on the planet.”Footage of Boseman giving a powerful commencement speech at his alma mater has gone viral in the wake of his death. And actress Rashad also recalled mentoring Boseman at Howard during Sunday’sfollowing a commercial-free broadcast of Marvel and Disney’s “Black Panther.
“There is no ‘Black Panther’ without Denzel Washington,” Boseman continued in his AFI address. “And not just because of me, but my whole cast. That generation stands on your shoulders. The daily battles won, the thousand territories gained, the many sacrifices you made for the culture on film sets through your career, the things you refused to compromise along the way, laid the blueprints for us to follow.
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