Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, he was so connected to his role of Levee, that he cried after a particularly emotional scene. During a conversation with the WSJ Magazine, Wolfe revealed that after filming a scene during which Boseman’s character, Levee, confronts someone for believing in God, Boseman began to cry. “It was raw and explosive,” the director said of Boseman’s acting during the scene. “Afterwards, Chadwick just started to sob, and Colman [a co-star] hugged him, and then Chadwick’s girlfriend basically picked him up.”Boseman had been fighting a private battle with colon cancer at the time the movie was filmed.
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