‘Black Panther’ Director Ryan Coogler Recalled His Last Conversation with Late Chadwick Boseman Before The Release of Its Sequel!

Published on November 7, 2022 | Published By: Selina shamp | In Death

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While Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premieres in theaters on Nov. 11 fans are terribly missing Chadwick Boseman.
Even the director Ryan Coogler is recalling his final conversation with Chadwick Boseman.
Here’s what the director said in an episode of Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther podcast.

Ryan Coogler remembered his late actor Chadwick Boseman before the official release of its second part Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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Here’s what Ryan Coogler said in the loving memory of Chadwick Boseman

The Black Panther director, Ryan Coogler recalled his last conversation with the beloved actor Chadwick Boseman in an episode of Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther podcast.

Ryan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman (source: Entertainment Weekly)

On November 3, 2022, he remembered how the last time he was asking him about the script of the actor who died of colon cancer at 43 in August 2020. Coogler 36 lastly spoke to him,

“to ask if he wanted to read [the script] before I got notes from the studio.”

The Black Panther director then kept on talking about King T’Challa in the groundbreaking Marvel film saying,

“That was the last time we spoke. He passed maybe a couple of weeks after I finished.”

Getting emotional over the memory of the legendary actor who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, Coogler continued,

“I could tell he was laying down when we were talking. He kicked [Taylor] Simone out because he told her he didn’t want her to hear anything that could get him in trouble with his NDA.”

Meanwhile, the director was getting the idea something was not okay as,

“She didn’t want to leave. I could tell something was up.”

Coogler also knew that the late actor refused to read the script of the movie’s sequel before the notes of the studios to which Coogler believed,

“I found out later he was too tired to read anything.”

Ryan Coogler was in denial about Chadwick Boseman’s death

Ryan Coogler was in denial after his actor Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer on August 26, 2020. He thought it was a rumor after he received a call from his manager Charles King who talked about Chad’s death.

In the podcast, Coogler clearly said,

“I didn’t want to believe it, so I called Denzel [Washington] and I spoke to him, and we thought it might be a rumor, so I texted Chad. I was in denial.”

Ryan Coogler and ChadwRyan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman (1)ick Boseman (1) — Ryan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman (source: Vanity Fair)

For the final words on how Chad was, the director who also directed Fruitvale Station (2013) and Creed (2015) paid tribute adding,

“Everything about Chad was unique. How he lived and how he died was unique.”

Before returning to direct the sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, things weren’t that easy as he shared the pain earlier in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in October 2022, adding,

“I was at a point when I was like, ‘I’m walking away from this business.’ I didn’t know if I could make another movie period, [let alone] another Black Panther movie, because it hurt a lot. I was like, ‘Man, how could I open myself up to feeling like this again?’ “

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While sister Shuri played by Letitia Wright in the upcoming movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is the new lead premiering on November 11, 2022, Coogler ended,

“There’s that idea of grief and intense emotion feeling like it comes in waves. Sometimes a wave can take you away where you lose control of it. You think you’re in control, but the water can always remind you that you’re not.”

The actor who died of cancer in August 2020, was married secretly to his wife Taylor Simone Ledward. And the last memory of the director with the actor also revolved around a conversation about Boseman’s plans for his wedding

In his last days, Boseman was not well so he wasn’t able to attend the director and his wife Zinzi Evans’ baby shower.

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