Almost as shocking as the news of Chadwick Boseman passing away, was the revelation that the actor had spent the past 4 years battling colon cancer. This timeline means that he was diagnosed in 2016, the year that he debuted as King T’Challa in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. And it means that after his diagnosis, Boseman filmed and appeared in Marshall, Black Panther, 2 more Avengers movies, 21 Bridges, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods & the upcoming film Black Bottom. This output is immense coming from an actor who had been making major Hollywood films for only 2 years before his big Marvel break. A superstar run that seems all the more miraculous in light of the knowledge that he pulled it off while quietly undergoing surgeries & rounds of chemotherapy.
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