Sad Story
Boseman passed away last week at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
The “Black Panther” star was “very, very private” and had worked to keep his illness out of the spotlight as he delivered some of his most iconic performances, his agent, Michael Greene, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On hiding his late-stage cancer diagnosis from the public, Greene told the magazine Boseman was influenced by his mother, Carolyn, who raised him to be humble.
Greene said: “[She] always taught him not to have people fuss over him, “He also felt in this business that people trip out about things, and he was a very, very private person.”
Boseman was in “hardcore pain” while working on his final movie, the upcoming Netflix picture “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” but he felt it was worth it to work alongside Denzel Washington on a project adopted from an August Wilson play, Greene said.
His death was a tragedy , shocked the country and revealed touching anecdotes from his life, including that he visited terminally ill children during his treatments and that he married his longtime partner, Taylor Simone Ledward, before his death.
