By PTI
.LOS ANGELES: “Black Panther” actor Michael B Jordan has spoken about late co-star Chadwick Boseman’s finest actor Oscar snub for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.
Jordan, who had hoped a posthumous win for Boseman on the Oscars, was disillusioned that the late star was not acknowledged by the Academy.
The finest actor Oscar went to Anthony Hopkins, who didn’t attend the socially-distanced ceremony however honoured Boseman in his speech.
Speaking to SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Jordan remembered Boseman fondly.
“But you know, this is how I honestly and truly really feel about it: There’s like, there’s no award that can validate his legacy,” Jordan mentioned of his ‘Black Panther’ co-star.
“There’s no win that can take anything away from the lives around the world that he impacted. So you’ve got to look at the things that we can control and the gifts and the blessings that he left us, and that’s this incredible body of work and what he represents for as a person and as the biggest one we could really ask for.”
Boseman, 43, died of colon most cancers in 2020 after a four-year-long secret battle with the illness.
Jordan, 34, mentioned he couldn’t instantly bear to look at Boseman’s closing efficiency in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” because it was exhausting to think about that the actor was not round.
“I held off from watching it for a while, to be perfectly honest. And when I did it, you know, it’s like, you want to savor it. It was an incredible performance, man. I mean, it’s like, you can see it, you know, him giving everything he had.”