Martin Freeman 'couldn't believe that nobody knew' that 'Black Panther' co-star Chadwick Boseman had cancer - Yahoo Entertainment

Martin Freeman is inactive shocked that nary 1 astatine Marvel knew that his Black Panther co-star, Chadwick Boseman, was earnestly sick during filming, helium says successful a caller interrogation astir the enactment hero's "dreadful" decease from colon cancer.

“Losing him was awful. It was dreadful,” Freeman told Sky News astir the Academy Award-nominated actor’s decease successful August 2020.

Freeman, 51, called the precocious prima an inspiration “because of what helium achieved.” Boseman lived with crab for the past 4 years of his life. During that time, the histrion starred successful Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: End Game, 21 Bridges, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Marvel’s What If?

“He was truly rather remarkable. I couldn't judge that cipher knew," the BAFTA victor shared. "I was saying to radical astatine Marvel, 'Come on, you must've truly known.'"

But cipher was the wiser.

“That’s erstwhile you benignant of spell — you tin ne'er kick again. You can’t kick astir … oh, we’ve been waiting astir a spot agelong oregon my tea’s a spot cold, erstwhile radical are susceptible of this superhuman enactment of fortitude,” Freeman said.

The British histrion is the latest collaborator to speech astir moving with Boseman amid his crab struggles. In January 2022, Denzel Washington spoke with Variety astir the precocious star, calling him "a antheral among men."

"He suffered quietly," Washington told the outlet. "He made the movie, and cipher knew. I didn’t know. He ne'er said a peep astir it. He conscionable did his job. I wondered if thing was incorrect due to the fact that helium seemed anemic oregon bushed sometimes. We had nary idea, and it was nobody’s business. Good for him, keeping it to himself."

In September, Lupita Nyong’o spoke astir grieving the movie’s prima portion the formed filmed its sequel, Wakanda Forever. "There was a batch of stillness, reflection, supplication and meditation to bolster maine up arsenic emotionally, mentally and spiritually arsenic possible," Nyong'o told the New York Times.

"It was a unsocial acquisition to measurement backmost into this satellite without our leader. When you person a sophomore film, there's a batch of expectation. But I deliberation the nonaccomplishment of Chadwick benignant of took each that away. I recovered myself having to radically judge that this was going to beryllium different, and that showing up with arsenic overmuch openness arsenic imaginable was key."

President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige told Empire that Bosemen's relation arsenic T’Challa volition not beryllium recast. The determination has led to petitions from Marvel fans.