Viola Davis admits that she tried Chadwick Boseman on a set, did not know that he had cancer

Viola Davis said she tried part of Chadwick BosemanThe choices on the set of “My Rainey’s Black Bottom” … ignoring that he needed well-being because he was so sick.

The Egot winner sat for an interview with Time – Posted on Friday … and, she discussed the 2020 film based on August WilsonThe seminal game of the same name, which also happens to be the last part that Boseman has ever shot.

Davis says – Like many people in the world – the cast did not know that Chadwick was sick … So, when she saw the girlfriend and the Boseman makeup artist rubbing her back and playing meditative music, she was a bit critical.

Viola says time: “There was a part of me that was a little judgment – why did you need all this? I didn’t know they were doing it because he was dying.”

The filming of The Flick took place in the summer of 2019 … About a year after the wrapped shoot – August 28, 2020 – Boseman Death of colon cancer. He was only 43 years old.

After his death, his family revealed that he had received a diagnosis of stadium in 2016 stadium colon cancer, and he fought it for years because he became stadium IV before finally dying … So he was prey to his cancer battle during the shooting of `my Rainey’s ”.

Months after his death, Viola called him a handsome man and an artist who “had a quality that very few have today, whether young or old, which is a total commitment to the form of art of acting. No matter the ego, whatever this. He was with the same agent he had when he started his career.”