Colman Domingo Recalls Late Costar Chadwick Boseman [Video]

Colman Domingo is remembering his dearly departed costar Chadwick Boseman.

On the Friday, June 28 episode of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on Max, the Oscar-nominated Rustin star reflected on acting with the late Boseman in 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

“Chad came in with so much energy and passion,” Domingo, 54, recalled for CNN anchor Chris Wallace. “He worked like a tornado.”

Boseman died at age 43 from colon cancer in August 2020, making the Viola Davis-starring August Wilson adaptation his final film. As Boseman noted, “no one” involved on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom knew that the Black Panther star was facing a deadly disease at the time.

It was “because he was so sick,” according to Domingo, that Boseman worked so hard at portraying Levee Green, the confident trumpet player in a 1920s jazz band. 

“He had so much fun and so much passion for doing the work,” said the EuphoriaEmmy winner. “He …