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Speaking to The Guardian, Ledward Boseman said she felt a lot of pressure about deciding what his legacy would be following his death.
She said: “My response was: I’m not talking to nobody and I’m not doing nothing,which is another lesson I learned from chad.
“he taught me that I can’t always be nice. You can always be respectful, but you can’t always be nice. He also taught me that sometimes ‘no’ is a full sentence and sometimes silence is the most eloquent response.
“I don’t have to create his legacy,I just have to protect it.
“I just have to make sure that it doesn’t get flattened. that’s why I love talking about him – I think it’s important that people understand him as a full human being, that they get the full picture of who he was.
“I never want his life story to be distilled down to the way that he died. I want his life to be about the way that he lived.”
Ledward Boseman said the first two years following his death were the most “challenging” of her life, though, she found that the “edges of grief get less sharp over time”.
She also explained why it was so important to Boseman to keep his cancer diagnosis private, with only a couple of family members and close friends knowing about it.
She said: “Something like a cancer diagnosis can get in the way of a lot of things.
“He never wanted to be treated differently. A lot of the roles he did were so physical, and he still wanted to do them.
“He did not want to be judged by what he was experiencing. He didn’t want his diagnosis to interfere with the work.”
The comments come ahead of the revival of one of Boseman’s plays, titled *Deep Azure*, which will run at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London from May 16 to August 17, 2024.
The play,which opens on May 17,2024,follows the aftermath of the death of an unarmed Black man named Deep,after he was murdered by a police officer.
Boseman’s best-known role as the superhero T’Challa in Marvel’s *Black Panther* (201
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