“A man among men” — Denzel Washington remembers worrying about health of the late Chadwick Boseman

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Denzel Washington remembers Chadwick Boseman in a new Variety feature, calling the late actor “a man among men.” 

Washington’s and Boseman’s paths crossed indirectly even before they finally worked together, when Denzel was a producer on Boseman’s final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Years earlier, the Oscar winner made it possible for a then-unkown Boseman to attend the British American Drama Academy’s prestigious Oxford Summer Program.

In 2019, when Washington was saluted with the American Film Institute Awards’ Lifetime Achievement  honor, Boseman recalled on the podium, “Imagine receiving the letter that your tuition…was paid for and that your benefactor was none other than the dopest