The final live-action performance of Chadwick Boseman’s career is currently dominating Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched list, with the actor receiving rave reviews from critics and subscribers alike for his phenomenal turn in stage adaptation Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The streaming service were already planning a major awards season push for the movie, and Boseman is widely considered the front-runner to pick up the Academy Award for Best Actor, and he might even pull off an unprecedented double if his supporting role in Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods gains similar recognition.
Netflix dramas mark the final feature length outings for a talent taken far too soon, but it seems tragically fitting that his last credit sees him return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as T’Challa. It was Black Panther that turned Boseman into a megastar, and he’s left behind a massive legacy as the leading man of a $1.3 billion box office hit that scooped an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, inspired a generation and left a huge imprint on popular culture.
It was common knowledge that one episode of Marvel’s What If…? would follow T’Challa becoming the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Star-Lord instead of Peter Quill, but Kevin Feige has confirmed that Boseman’s recording sessions were completed, and he lent his vocal talents to multiple installments of the upcoming Disney Plus series.
“These are all sorts of stories we couldn’t explore through live action. Chadwick Boseman came in about four times and recorded numerous episodes. In hindsight, it’s very moving.”
Almost every major star from the history of the MCU is returning for What If…?, with Jeffrey Wright’s Watcher providing the connective tissue that ties all of the theoretical scenarios together, but no episode is going to be anywhere near as bittersweet or poignant as the one to feature Chadwick Boseman’s presence on the screen for the very last time.
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