Chadwick Boseman (2018)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Chadwick Boseman passed away this week at the age of 43, losing a four year battle with colon cancer that he never discussed publicly. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist revisits his interview with Boseman from 2018, when the actor soared to fame in the groundbreaking film Black Panther. They also discuss what it was like for Boseman to play some of history's most famous figures, including Jackie Robinson and James Brown. (Original broadcast date: March 4, 2018)

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of Sunday Sit Downs, the podcast where we
0:06.8	give you the full interview from our Cut Down interviews on Sunday today on NBC.
0:12.4	On Sunday today, I'm thrilled because in TV land seven or eight minutes is about twice
0:17.7	as much as you usually get.
0:19.4	But still, when you sit down with somebody for an hour or 45 minutes or whatever it is,
0:23.8	you know how much great stuff is on the cutting room floor.
0:26.4	Well now it's found its way into the podcast.
0:28.3	You get the full Sunday Sit Down interview on this podcast.
0:31.7	And today, my guest is the star of the biggest movie in a long, long time, Black Panther.
0:41.0	Chadwick Boseman, Chadwick Boseman, such a great guy, such a smart guy, such a thoughtful
0:45.8	guy thrust into the spotlight as this movie, Black Panther blew up making more than a billion
0:51.8	dollars worldwide.
0:53.6	A billion dollars become one of the top 10 highest grossing movies of all time.
0:59.4	Chadwick, you probably know him from Jackie Robinson.
1:02.5	He played, he played Thurgood Marshall.
1:05.4	He played James Brown in the movie Get On Up.
1:07.6	I actually had interviewed him once before when he was in that movie.
1:10.7	He was shooting in Jackson, Mississippi.
1:12.9	Mick Jagger was his executive producer.
1:14.9	I got to go sit down with Mick Jagger and Chadwick Boseman.
1:18.7	But this was before Chadwick Boseman had blown up in the Black Panther.
1:22.7	He is, of course, the Black Panther.
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