“I loved that guy so much, and it saddens me every time I think about it that I won’t get a chance to work with him again,” Michael B. Jordan said of Chadwick Boseman, his costar in 2018’s Black Panther, during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performer of the Year Award tribute to Jordan on Thursday evening. Inside Santa Barbara’s historic 2,018-seat Arlington Theatre, which was sold out, Jordan was being feted for his critically-acclaimed portrayal of twins in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners when moderator Roger Durling, the fest’s executive director, asked him if he felt the presence of Boseman, who died of colon cancer in 2020, during the making of that film. Jordan choked up and then answered in the affirmative.
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“It was early in the shoot — maybe the first two weeks — and it was the first day that I had to go between both twins, going back and forth, and we were trying to figure out who goes first, Smoke or Stack,” he recalled. “I was having a lot of conversations inbetween, and I dropped my accent and it was full Mike talking for a second. And then I tried to get back into the mindset of one of the twins, and it took me a little bit longer to get back into character than I would have liked. I remember me and Coogs were having a sidebar conversation between one of the setups, and he was like — not these words verbatim, but along the lines of — ‘What would Chad do?’ And I kind of looked at him for a second and was like, ‘Alright, say no more.’ I knew exactly what he meant. And that propelled and pushed me, gave me another gear to go to. So yeah, Chadwick was with me. He’s always with me.”…