00:00Ryan Coogler is reflecting on his time working with the late Chadwick Boseman
00:04and looking back at how committed the actor was to the role of Black Panther.
00:11The Black Panther director who recently helmed Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan
00:15made a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club where he was asked
00:18what did Chadwick Boseman bring out of you that Michael B. Jordan doesn't?
00:22Boseman who played T'Challa slash Black Panther in the 2018 superhero film
00:27sadly died in 2020 at the age of 43 following a battle with colon cancer.
00:32Coogler noted,
00:33Out of all of my actors, Chad's death actually hit Mike the hardest.
00:37Chad was older than us. He was quite a bit older than us even though he looked like he was the same age.
00:42He was a fully baked man from the South. He was an old school man's man.
00:46And compared to that dude, when we worked together, bro, me and Mike was kids.
00:49The filmmaker continued,
00:51Chad changed my life. He was the kind of teacher who you never knew you were getting a lesson when he taught.
00:56It was all by example. And what he gave me and Michael was patience.
01:00He moved at an old school pace and he took his time. He was always early.
01:04He was that type of dude. And Mike will tell you this. I told him,
01:07Man, I said, Hey bro, what would Chad do in this role?
01:09If he had this role, what would he do? Because Chad never broke action.
01:13Coogler then recalled how seriously the late actor took the role of Black Panther,
01:17even continuing T'Challa's accent until the film wrapped production.
01:21The director explained,
01:22He was talking in an African accent. Disney execs came to see us on Panther.
01:27It was week two and they pulled up and it was the T'Challa accent.
01:30And they were freaked out. I was like, don't be freaked out. He's working, man.
01:33He don't turn it off until we wrap. And no shame or embarrassment in that.
01:36But that's how he was moving.
01:38Coogler also added that working with Bozeman on Black Panther also helped Jordan,
01:42who played villain Eric Killmonger in the 2018 superhero film,
01:46lock in to play twin brothers in Sinners.
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