Hey guys it's Josh. As you know by now we have lost a exceptionally talented and

hugely influential human being in the last day.

Chadwick Bozeman passed away at the age of 43.

He had been silently, at least publicly dealing with cancer the last few years even as he made

some of the most resonant films in recent memory and indelible performances.

This is a loss that has hit everybody I feel like

tremendously hard.

These are hard times.

This has been a shitty year.

And this is in a crappy year, this is one of the one of the worst things that we've had to

deal with because Chadwick Bozeman was in his prime he was just getting started and he was not only a fantastic actor but a good man

truly a guy that had his priorities right and wanted to contribute and was in it for the

right reasons and was delivering just great work after great work and no one can can say that there wasn't

there wasn't going to be decades more of exceptional work to come.

Yeah, this loss really hit me hard as it's hit many people hard and I felt compelled to go

back this morning. I listened to my conversation which had

back in late 2017.

He came into my office.

He was promoting Marshall,

the biopick where he played Thurgood Marshall, and we had a chat and I hadn't

listened to it since then and it hit me again really hard as very sad but also really inspiring.

Chadwick was just like a very intelligent

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