‘All My Children’ Casting Director Recalls Hiring Michael B. Jordan After Chadwick Boseman Was Fired

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Before going toe-to-toe in Wakanda, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan‘s paths almost crossed in Pine Valley. All My Children casting director Judy Blye Wilson recently recalled hiring Jordan to play Reggie Montgomery on the ABC soap opera back in 2003 after Boseman was fired from the role. “I did cast Boseman, who became very famous, as we all know.

And he was only on the show for just a week, because they really wanted the character to be about 16, 15 years old,” said Wilson at the 92Y, according to People. “[Boseman] had just come out of Juilliard.

He was a magnificent actor to audition. And long story short, they fired him,” she added. “And then I put in Michael B. Jordan, who became just as famous.

And he was only about 15 at that time. Now, I could go on and on, but I think I don’t want to do that.” In 2020, the late Boseman’s longtime agent Michael Green claimed that the actor was fired from the soap after objecting to the writers “perpetuating the stereotypes” of Reggie’s mother being a crackhead and his father having left.