Boseman’s trainer and agent give insight into why he kept his diagnosis from the public (via toofab)
Greene said the actor's mother"always taught him not to have people fuss over him." Regarding his decision to not reveal his diagnosis, he added,"[Boseman] also felt in this business that people trip out about things, and he was a very, very private person."
Greene added that Boseman was"really in hard-core pain" while filming the upcoming Netflix movie"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the actor's final completed film starring Viola Davis and produced by Denzel Washington. The actor, however, also thought the project was really important and believed"that being able to be with Denzel and to launch this cycle of [playwright] August Wilson at Netflix was so exciting to him.
Boseman's connection to Denzel goes back to his time at Howard University, when he and some of his fellow students were accepted into an acting course at The University of Oxford. Instructor and"The Cosby Show" star Phylicia Rashad reached out to her celebrity friends to fund some of her students' tuition -- with Boseman later finding out Washington had paid for his.
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