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“Sinners” director Ryan Coogler appeared on a recent episode of “The Breakfast Club” (via People) and spoke highly of the late Chadwick Boseman‘s commitment to his craft. Coogler directed Boseman in Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther.” The two were in development on the sequel when Boseman died in August 2020 at 43 years old from colon cancer.
“Out of all of my actors, Chad’s death actually hit [Michael B. Jordan] the hardest,” Coogler said. “Chad was older than us, he was quite a bit older than us, even though he looked like he was the same age. He was a fully baked man from the South. He was an old school man’s man and compared to that dude when we worked together bro, me and Mike was kids.”
“Chad changed my life. He was the kind of teacher who you never knew you was getting a lesson when he taught,” Coogler added of the late actor. “It was all by example and what he gave me and Michael was patience. He moved at an old-school pace and he took his time. He was always early. He was that type of dude. And Mike will tell you this, I told him man, I said, ‘Hey bro, what would Chad do in this [‘Sinners’] role? If he had this role what would he do?’ Because Chad never broke action.”
Coogler noted that Boseman’s work ethic was to immerse himself in the character, so much so that he adopted T’Challa’s accent for the entirety of the “Black Panther” shoot.
“He was talking in an African accent,” Coogler said. “Disney execs came to see us on ‘Panther.’ It was week two and they pulled up and it was the T’Challa accent and they were freaked out. I was like, ‘Don’t be freaked out. He’s working, man. He don’t turn it off until we wrap.’”
Jordan played the villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther,” so he got to see Boseman’s commitment up close and personal. According to Coogler, it was Boseman’s work ethic that allowed Jordan to “lock in” and play twin characters in “Sinners.”
“Sinners” opens in theaters April 18 from Warner Bros. Watch Coogler’s full interview on “The Breakfast Club” in the video below.
