Black Panther actor Michael B Jordan has spoken about late co-star Chadwick Boseman’s greatest actor Oscar snub for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Jordan, who had hoped for a posthumous win for Boseman on the Oscars, was dissatisfied that the late star was not acknowledged by the Academy.
The greatest actor Oscar went to Anthony Hopkins, who didn’t attend the socially distanced ceremony however honoured Boseman in his speech.
Speaking to SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Jordan remembered Boseman fondly.
“But you understand, that is how I actually and actually actually really feel about it: There’s like, there’s no award that may validate his legacy,” Jordan said of his “Black Panther” co-star.
“There’s no win that can take anything away from the lives around the world that he impacted. So you’ve got to look at the things that we can control and the gifts and the blessings that he left us, and that’s this incredible body of work and what he represents for as a person and as the biggest one we could really ask for.”
Boseman, 43, died of colon most cancers in 2020 after a four-year-long secret battle with the illness.
Jordan, 34, stated he couldn’t instantly bear to observe Boseman’s ultimate efficiency in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” as it was hard to imagine that the actor was no longer around.
“I held off from watching it for a while, to be perfectly honest. And when I did it, you know, it’s like, you want to savour it. It was an incredible performance, man. I mean, it’s like, you can see it, you know, him giving everything he had.”
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