I interviewed Chadwick Bosewick for Black Panther two years ago and met a man in complete command of how the film might change the world, and his own careerChadwick Boseman dies aged 43Peter Bradshaw on Chadwick BosemanIt would be damning Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther with faint praise to call it the best of the Marvel movies.
Rather, it is that studio’s only film to date that has felt like it had any reason to exist beyond selling toys and pencil cases and boosting the brand.
This wasn’t just a superhero movie: this was a howl of pain which echoed far beyond the multiplexes.
Central to its effectiveness was Chadwick Boseman, whose measured, inquisitive performance as T’Challa, the king who doubles as the Black Panther, helped lend the picture its warmth and humanity.
The character could be flawed, bewildered, blinkered—he had to learn to
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