We are not wanting for reminders of how fragile and fleeting life can be in 2020, but

on Friday night we got another one anyway.

The actor Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer at 43, and he chose to suffer in silence,

even his closest friends and collaborators only discovered he had cancer when they heard

about his passing.

Chadwick had been battling cancer for the past four years while playing superheroes

in movies, Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and Black Panther.

As the world mourned Chadwick Boseman this weekend, an old interview resurfaced.

It was from a Black Panther press junket.

Chadwick is talking about two kids with cancer who couldn't wait to see the movie.

While our film and I was communicating with them, knowing that they were both terminal,

and what they said to me is that in their parents they just try to hold on to this movie

cult.

Boseman says he couldn't believe Black Panther would mean that much to two kids with terminal

cancer.

I think back now to a kid and just waiting for Christmas to come, waiting for my birthday

to come, waiting for a toy that was going to get a chance to experience or a video game,

I did live life waiting for those moments.

And so it put me back in the mind of being a kid just to experience those two little

boys' anticipation of this movie.

And when I found out that they...

Yeah, it's it's it's it's a lie.

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