Actor Chadwick Boseman’s Wife Accepts Posthumous Emmy Award For Husband: ‘Chad Would Be So Honored’
By Movieguide® Staff
Nearly two years after the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, known for his role as King T’Challa in Marvel’s BLACK PANTHER, he won an Emmy Award.
Taylor Simone Ledward, who married Boseman shortly before his death from colon cancer on August 28, 2020, accepted the Creative Arts Emmy Award on his behalf.
Boseman earned the posthumous Emmy for his role in Marvel’s animated series, WHAT IF…?.
“When I learned Chad was nominated, I started thinking of everything that was going on in the world and our world and being so in awe of his commitment and dedication and what a beautiful moment that one of the last things he would work on was something so important to him and to the world but also something new,” his wife said while accepting his award. “You can’t understand your purpose unless you ask what if? What if the universe is conspiring in my favor? What if it’s me? Chad would be so honored, and I am honored on his behalf.”
According to the Movieguide® review of WHAT IF … ?
In Episode 2, “What If. . . T’Challa Became a Star-Lord,” viewers of James Gunn’s GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY will be met with the familiarity of the family of Yondu’s band of Ravagers. However, the writers have thrown a few curve balls at viewers. T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is kidnapped by Yondu’s henchmen from Wakanda as a boy instead of Peter Quill. He travels the galaxy seeking to rob from the well-off to sustain those who are less fortunate. It’s a classic Robin Hood principle, though, in the real story, Robin Hood stole tax money that the British government stole form the people.
Joining Star Lord T’Challa and Yondu are Nebula, Korath, and. . . Thanos. Surprisingly, the all-out genocide attempted by Thanos in the mainstream MCU timeline also occurred in this alternate reality. However, the giant now spends his days gardening and drinking and doesn’t seem to hold a malevolent grudge against the fact that his idea failed to come to fruition. His character here, while still gruff, is even likeable.
Over the course of T’Challa’s adventure, he learns the importance of friendship, the price of liberty and the significance of family. Though he went missing while still a young boy, T’Challa ventures across the galaxy to reunite with his elderly father, King T’Chaka, who has sought his son throughout the heavens, looking up at the night sky for two decades and hoping that one of the shimmering lights in the distance might be his missing boy. The Prodigal Son, who had not understood or fully appreciated his father in his youth, returns to Wakanda and is warmly welcomed. The episode closes with a touching tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.
As for a comparison of suggestive content between the two episodes, the first includes much more action violence than the latter, while the second episode incorporates a good deal of drinking references. Both episodes of the series are filled with fleeting cameos of familiar or forgotten faces from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As with most of the Marvel movies, there’s plenty of action and frequent violence. At the core of each story, however, are the struggles, virtues and relationships that go into making a hero.
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