"Simone Ledward Boseman is reflecting on the five years that have passed since the death of her husband, actor and writer Chadwick Boseman. The edges of grief get less sharp over time, she says. Five years definitely feels like a marker. I've had to gradually figure out how I talk about Chad. What do I want to share, and what do I feel comfortable sharing? Can I find something that I might want to share in the midst of something I don't want to share?"
"We meet on a video call across time zones it's 9am in California, where she lives. Except for my mom, I'm not talking to anybody before 10am, she laughs. She's made an exception to give a rare interview ahead of the UK premiere of her late husband's play Deep Azure, which is currently in previews in London at Shakespeare's Globe."
"He was devastatingly young only 43 and the world was just getting to know him. The release of the movie Black Panther two years earlier, in which he played the eponymous character also known as T'Challa, had skyrocketed his fame. Before then, he had been a successful Hollywood actor. Now? He was a global megastar the first Black superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)."
Simone Ledward Boseman marks five years since Chadwick Boseman's death and notes grief's edges have softened. She balances what to share publicly with what to keep private, making rare interviews around his play Deep Azure. Chadwick Boseman's sudden 2020 death shocked a global audience after his stardom soared with Black Panther; he had become the first Black superhero in the MCU. The family had kept his 2016 colorectal cancer diagnosis private while he continued working through treatment, filming seven movies and maintaining public appearances without wanting special treatment.
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