Welcome back everyone it's charlie obviously it's still a very
sad time everyone's still grieving chadwick boseman the marvel people just
posted their official tribute to him it aired last night on television so i'll
play that video in a second here what i'm going to do is the same thing
as my last video and just donate the ad revenue from this video to a cancer
charity if you do have one you want to recommend
just let me know in the comments so here's marvel's tribute video to him
that aired on television last night
it was chadwick boseman's performance in 42 that really made us take a second
look there is there is such an honor and dignity to
the way that he played jackie robinson that we knew we needed for the character
of t'challa the prince of wakanda chadwick is an amazing actor that we
thought would fit perfectly with the mcu
black panther himself ladies and gentlemen mr chadwick boseman
chadwick you know he has a lot of depth it was amazing as an audience
member to you know to look into his eyes and see
what's going on we must find a way to look after one another
as if we were one single tribe a lot of the things about the
character are also true about chad he's very knowledgeable he's an athlete
you know a martial artist he's had a lot of experience playing
roles that come with a lot of weight you know so i think he has a he has a person
he has a guy has a lot of has a lot of weight to him i think he
brings all that that stuff to the role not to mention that he's incredibly you
know incredibly gifted as an actor and as a performer and also as a storyteller
in his own right i am not king of all people i am king of wakanda
and it is my responsibility to make sure our people are safe
because he is so prepared as an actor and because his character is sort of
flawless on set it forced the other actors who had
scenes with them to kind of raise their game
and go okay this guy is not taking anything for granted he's really leaving
it all out there so we have to keep up with him what
doesn't chadwick bring to the character i mean he's regal and grounded and he
brings a gravitas to it so all of this feeds his t'challa and
i think he wore the crown with dignity
he brought him back
i've known him since i was about like 17. so i've known him for a really long
time um back in new york he did the work
obviously you know i just think he did an
incredible job being true to the character
i had a great time with chadwick just warmth and camaraderie came into it of
course with a great deal of respect for his previous work
so when i looked at him with proud eyes you know
they were as mother and and also as as comrade and colleague and angela it is
your time to be king i mean chadwick is just a
powerhouse he really is so talented every single
movie he's made there's there's kind of this
internal almost nobility the black panther has been a protector of wakanda
for generations he's such a soulful actor and um
so professional so present he really gives so much
to the other person and he's awesome and his presence on set
i think makes that kind of raises the stakes a little bit for everybody
chadwick is a he's a really smart interesting dynamic guy
and i think he was not overwhelmed but very surprised and somewhat taken aback
by the amount of love it ceased to become just about
how well he inhabited the role and all that stuff it's become part of our
culture just as a symbol
this welcome is is one of the most amazing things i've ever experienced
it's fun to watch just what it means to people
at times like in my head i'll be like well
what does this do for the world like actually what is it
you know is it actually valuable in this climate and i have to say
yes it actually is not because it makes people escape
i think when done right um it gives people hope
i found that it means a lot
so that was all the avengers actors all the bigger people at marvel the
executives the producers just paying honor to his memory
they aired that on abc right after they got done airing the black panther movie
commercial free ryan coogler the director of black panther who was
featured during that memorial video also issued his official statement he was
very close to chadwick boseman but he's not active on social
media and he was just so much more broken up over the weekend that it took
him a couple days to get his thoughts together to issue an official statement
and memorialize him so it was a very long very touching statement i'm just
going to read part of what he said here he says he was a special person he would
often speak about heritage and what it means to be african when preparing for
the film talking about the black panther movie he
would ponder every decision every choice not just for how it would
reflect on himself but how those choices would reverberate
they're not ready for this what we are doing this is star wars this is lord of
the rings but for us and bigger he would say this
to me when we were struggling to finish a dramatic scene stretching into double
overtime or while he was covered in body paint doing his own stunts
or crashing into frigid water and foaming landing pads
i would nod and smile and i didn't believe him i had no idea if the film
would work i wasn't sure if i knew what i was doing
but i look back and i realized that chad knew something that we all didn't
he was playing the long game all while putting in the work and he did
chad deeply valued his privacy and i wasn't privy to the details of his
illness after his family released their
statement i realized that he was living with this illness the
entire time that i knew him because he was a caretaker a leader
a man of faith dignity and pride he shielded his collaborators from his
suffering he lived a beautiful life and he made
great art day after day year after year that was who he was he
was an epic firework display all tell stories about being there for
some of the brilliant sparks till the end of my days
what an incredible mark he's left for us but is with a heavy heart and a sense of
deep gratitude to have ever been in his presence that i have to reckon
with the fact that chad is an ancestor now
and i know he will watch over us until we meet again
signed ryan coogler so it's a very wonderful memorial and he talks about
working on the black panther film i think a lot of people were surprised to
hear that ryan coogler someone who worked so closely with him for so long
and so intensely on a movie like that didn't know that he was suffering from
cancer the whole time i talked about it in my last video but
he actually found out that he had been diagnosed
stage 3 cancer back in 2016 around the time the captain america civil war was
happening so he filmed all these different movies
not just the marvel movies like avengers end game
avengers infinity war the black panther movie but a whole string of other big
films indie films and in between those just
went through incredibly invasive and intensive surgeries and cancer
treatments just taking it all like a champ you
rewatch some of these films this was all happening while avengers end game
avengers infinity war was happening even the black panther movie
and he looks fantastic you wouldn't know it just to look at him
one of the reasons why he probably didn't want to tell a lot of the people
that he was working with that he was suffering from this
is that it winds up coloring people's perception of you the industry
in everything you do just becomes about that not about the work or the mark
you're trying to leave and a lot of people have been talking
about the impact that his characters and the work that he had had on people
around the world and he didn't want to take that away from any of those people
but it's so wonderful just listening to all the other big time avengers actors
that have been around this whole time talk about what a special person he was
and how much he inspired them coming in and completely changing the landscape of
not only the marvel cinematic universe the marvel movies but just pop culture
and cinema in general i would encourage you to watch some of
his other films if you haven't seen anything besides his marvel movies
they're all fantastic he's fantastic in everything that he does
what'll probably happen in the future because marvel has the black widow movie
that they plan on releasing later this year
is they might attach some sort of memorial or card to that movie
remembering him they did the same thing for stan lee when the captain marvel
movie came out but they will find some way to get some
sort of memorial into the upcoming movies
it's just that right now they only have the black widow movie coming up later
this year and then the eternals movie early next year
i think it's a little crass to be talking about black panther 2 right now
but i'm sure sometime next year they'll address
what's going on with the future of the marvel cinematic universe they will give
it the appropriate amount of time to settle so that they are not
disrespectful to his memory so if you didn't see it i also posted a
chat with boseman video this past weekend after they announced the news of
his passing you can click here to watch that
and you can click here for all my other marvel videos thank you so much for
watching everyone please stay healthy and safe i'll see you guys tonight!