Chadwick Boseman’s brother says late actor would want Black Panther recast

nme.com:

Black Panther role recast.Derrick Boseman told TMZ that he believes Chadwick would want his character, T’Challa, to live on in the MCU – despite Marvel bosses saying they didn’t want to recast him out of respect.Derrick reportedly said that T’Challa “was bigger than one guy” and that Chadwick “knew the power of the character”.According to TMZ, Derrick thinks that “there’s so much power in seeing a Black king” on screen in terms of the effect it has on the “African-American youth”.

By not recasting the character, Derrick argues, Marvel is “depriving Black kids of a role model”.Derrick went on to call T’Challa “a symbol of Black people’s potential” and said he thought that “there aren’t a whole lot of positive influences for young Black.