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Welcome back everyone it's charlie this is going to be a bit of a sad video
because chadwick boseman has passed away a lot of you asked me to make a video
about it explain what happened so what i'm going to do is i'm going to donate
the earnings from this youtube video to a cancer charity like
f cancer i don't have any kind of fundraiser or anything special like that
set up this is just a really sad really sudden
announcement that they made that he had passed away from cancer
so if you yourself or you know someone who's suffering from something similar
and you want to do that just please donate to a charity of your
own choosing but if you're not sure what happened you're still in shock
chadwick boseman's official twitter account through his family announced
last night that he had passed away after a long
battle the past four years with stage four cancer apparently he'd
been keeping his diagnosis secret from the public but he'd been
making all these movies so long this is his imdb
page from the last four years while he knew that he had been suffering from
cancer going through treatments between movies that means while he was
working on the captain america civil war movie while he was working on black
panther avengers infinity war and avengers end game
between all those movies he was suffering from cancer going through
crazy surgeries not letting anyone know that's how much
he endured and how hardcore he was so back in 2014 marvel first announced
him on stage as black panther for captain america civil
war that movie didn't happen until 2016 obviously
but during 2016 is when he discovered that he had stage three cancer
then for the next four years he proceeded to go through a number of
treatments a bunch of really hardcore surgery while
they were working on the black panther movie so that was going on
while he was going through all this and then obviously we just had avengers
infinity war and avengers end game and even though he looked really good
during those movies apparently things had just gotten
worse recently this year so earlier this year he had posted a video of himself
looking very thin unhealthy people were afraid they didn't know what was going
on everyone was freaking out now we have a little more information
about what was happening around that time
so of course marvel kevin feige some of the big people
that knew him his friends and family have issued statements
this is what kevin feige's statement was he says chadwick's passing is absolutely
devastating he was our t'challa our black panther and our dear friend
each time he stepped on set he radiated charisma and joy
and each time he appeared on screen he created something truly
indelible he embodied a lot of amazing people in his work
and nobody was better at bringing great men to life he was as smart and kind and
powerful and strong as any person he portrayed
now he takes his place alongside them as an icon for the ages
the marvel studios family deeply mourns his loss
and we are grieving tonight with his family the disney ceo
obviously the russo brothers who had done a lot of work with him also issued
statements that were similar personally in my own life my mother is
actually a cancer survivor so i had to go through something similar with my
family it's never easy when something like this
happens especially watching someone suffer through something like that for
so long because it's not something that's quick it takes a long time
this is actually a video clip of him talking about working with
stage 3 cancer patients little kids before the black panther movie came out
and what it meant to him while he himself was suffering from
stage 3 cancer throughout our filming i was
communicating with them um knowing that they were both terminal
and and what they said to me is and their parents said they just they're
trying to hold on until this movie comes
and i to a certain degree you hear them say
that and you're like like wow that's
like i gotta get up and i gotta get up and go to the gym
i gotta get up and go to work um you know
i gotta learn these lines i gotta work on this accident uh
you know seeing how devoted all of my castmates are
and knowing that that that that that will be something meaningful
to them but it's to a certain degree it's a humbling experience because
you're like this can't mean that much to them you know
but seeing how the world has taken us on seeing how the movement is how it's
taking on a life of its own i realized that they anticipated
something great and i think back now to a kid and just
you know uh waiting for christmas to come waiting for my birthday to come
waiting for a toy that was going to that i was going to get a chance to
experience or a video game i did live life waiting for those
moments and so it put me back in the mind of
being a kid just just to experience those two little
boys um anticipation of this movie and when i
found out that they
yeah it's it's it means a lot so listening to him talk about that what
it meant to him you just have to imagine how hard he was fighting for himself and
for those little kids while this was all going on
so for those of you asking yes marvel didn't know about his diagnosis
when they were making all those movies it would have been impossible for him to
hide it from everyone and as for the reason why he
didn't make it public is probably just because he didn't want to be pigeonholed
typically when someone announces something like that that's the only way
they get portrayed in the media and he probably didn't want to
overshadow the weight of what he was doing or
color people's perception of him and think about all the little kids that
idealized black panther he probably didn't want to take that away from them
i get that a lot of you are still in shock and you're asking all kinds of
questions about the upcoming marvel movies black panther 2
avengers 5 how are they going to honor his memory without doing something
distasteful in those upcoming movies i think it's a
little crass to just immediately start thinking about what's going to happen to
black panther 2 right now obviously the world has to mourn we have
to process this you can't start thinking about all those movies right away
but typically what disney and marvel does when someone passes away like this
they do have some way of memorializing them
in upcoming movies for instance when stan lee passed away you probably
remember that they had this special marvel movie intro featuring all of his
cameo characters instead of the regular marvel characters
from the intro as of me posting this video ryan coogler hasn't issued any
kind of statement on his passing or any kind of memorial but he doesn't really
have social media accounts so it's probably going to be a while before he
says something he was very close to him so just like
everyone else he's probably still in shock right now trying to process what
just happened i think the best thing you can do right
now is just remember how important he was as a person the
characters that he played he wasn't just in marvel movies he made
a lot of other movies about famous people
but if you are a big marvel fan just remember how important he was as a
person and as a character within the universe how important the black panther
film was to pop culture this is him talking about the importance of the film
in the world itself and how important it was for him to get this character right
and what he felt like it meant to the world
i mean we've had wesley snipes before so i got it i gotta give him
but but on this stage and definitively a superhero in this way
it is it is a new concept just it's the it's the whole cast and it's the fact
that it's this big yeah it is like a sea change moment
i do love that he totally gives a shout out to wesley snipes blade talking about
the first big african-american superhero in the
marvel universe because blade is a marvel movie even though it was made by
new line instead of marvel studios at the time
so i think we're all in agreement that we can say with confidence that no
marvel is not going to recast the role of t'challa
that would be the biggest slap in the face to his memory in real life to the
fans to his family if they decide to continue with the
black panther 2 movie it would be more likely that shuri would take the mantle
of black panther like she does in the comics
and they find some legit way for the movie to reference what happened to him
in real life without being distasteful about it the right story to honor his
legacy as a person and as a character so everyone just post
your favorite memories of him in the comments what he meant to you what the
character meant to you and please stay healthy 2020 has already
taken so much from us it does not need to take
any more there is a lot of marvel stuff happening
later this year maybe they'll issue some more statements about what's going on so
if they do of course i'll do a video about that explaining
long before this had happened of course i'd already done a couple black panther
2 videos about easter eggs and teasers and what marvel had already set up you
can click here if you want to learn about that
and you can click here for my marvel new mutants movie review
so thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe in wakanda forever!