Devastated about Chadwick Boseman

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So sad to hear he has passed away. He was a wonderful actor and all round very good human. No AIBU, just feeling sad at the loss

@kierenthecommunity that poster was genuinely asking. She replied on the first page "Hi Folks, thanks for explaining who he was. I’m sorry you feel his loss so keenly, it’s always devastating when a death touches you deeply", after people answered

Sad to hear the news this morning. The Black Panther film meant a lot to me and my family. I watched Chadwick play James Brown in a film recently, and he was so good. A fine actor.

It’s so sad

I too am incredibly sad. To have performed the way he did whilst suffering, and yet field accusations that he was refusing to do BP2 because of money gripes hurts my heart.

Black Panther is such an iconic film for so many reasons and is my teenage son's all time favourite movie. It brings me joy that he saw Chad as a strong black male role model.

As Chad said, Black Panther changed what is means to be "young, gifted and black".

I don't normally post on this kind of thread, but I also saw this today and felt terribly sad. @MolyHolyGuacamole has summed up so eloquently why people will feel his loss and I've just watched the YouTube clip posted upthread and I'm now sitting here in tears.

Posting to pay respects to someone I admired and whose work gave our family much pleasure.

Very sad news

@MolyHolyGuacamole that set me off again.

Beautifully, beautifully put.

So sad. Black Panther was the first Marvel film I watched with my daughter. I also teach it as a text in Media Studies. This year it will be with sadness.

Shocking and such a waste. I admit I didn't see any of his films, but in interviews he seemed thoughtful, intelligent and charming. 43. So unjust.

Thought it was a hoax..think more of a shock because you didn't know he was ill. Glad his privacy was respected for all those years. But to be ill and yet manage to star in so many films..just seemed such a humble guy and his role in Black Panther left such a impact. Sad

Very sad, i love black panther and as others have said he came over as an all round lovely man

I did have a little whimper and i dont often, such a loss

We were watching Black Panther yesterday as a family (because the weather scotched our plans). It’s so hard to think he’s gone - such a talented and compassionate person.

My son texted me at 4 this morning to tell me, very sad news.

Ah I didn't know him. Just googled him. Beautiful looking man..RIP.

OrangeGinLemonFanta couldn't care less, her original post was shit, it doesn't matter if she'd heard of him or not, if was unnecessary

It's very sad, 43 is no age at all!!

I keep welling up reading all the tributes. My partner is black and I know Black Panther will be a big inspiration to our son when he's old enough to watch it. Such complex themes about the empowerment of the black community. He was a wonderful role model.

He always seemed to be a very nice person, and I had never heard anything negative.

I thought he was amazing in Black Panther. So sad

Hugely sad news and I learnt today that Denzel Washington paid for his schooling. His tribute to Denzel is wonderful.

If you google Jimmy Fallon and Chadwick and the people’s reactions to him and Black Panther moved me to tears. A hugely important character and had meant so much to so many people. Rest in Peace.

Yes I remember him on Graham Norton talking about Denzel Washington sponsoring him through school .

What the fuck this is the first of this I have seen. Not been online today.

DUMBFOUNDED

Totally shocked. Huge Marvel Fan.

Such a shock. Great actor.

I've just lost an aunt to cancer and am about to lose a beloved uncle which was / is devastating but they were both in their 70's. 43 is absolutely no age.

@MolyHolyGuacamole....thank you.

For those of you struggling to get it, Black Panther was a seismic shift in how black people saw ourselves represented on screen. In Chadwick Boseman, we found a hero who looked like us. In the film, we saw a representation of Africa not as a poverty-stricken cesspool, but as a centre of excellence. Our kids saw they could be scientists, diplomats, warriors. To know that he had already had a diagnosis when he filmed Black Panther and a number of other films shows what an actual hero he was. Alongside the fact that he was only 43 years of age, anyone who has had someone taken from them by any form of cancer should feel devastated that yet another life has been claimed, famous or not.

I’m with you, OP

he was a shining star. Such a great role model and beloved.
I admire him for keeping it private (note NOT ‘secret’) and for carrying on with great work in the midst of hideous treatment.

What a beautiful man. RIP.