Chadwick Boseman wins a posthumous Emmy for What If

Chadwick Boseman wins a posthumous Emmy for What If…?

Chadwick Boseman won one Emmi posthumously for his work in What happened if…? this Saturday night (3). The actor, who died in 2020, was the winner in the Best Voice Performance category for the series, in which he reprized his role as T’Challa the Black Panther.

he competed with F Murray Abraham (moon knight), Julie Andrews (Bridgeton), Maya Rudolph (Big mouth), Stanley Tucci (Central Park) and Jeffrey Wright (What if…?) and Jessica Walter (Archer).

Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award on behalf of the actor. “When I heard Chad was nominated it made me think about everything that was going on in the world, how impressed I was with his dedication and dedication and how nice it is that one of his last jobs is something so important was. for him,” she said in her speech [via Deadline]. “You cannot understand its purpose unless you ask ‘what if?’: ‘what if the universe conspired on my behalf?’, ‘what if it was me?’. Chad would be honored, and I’m honored of you on his behalf. be”.

The top Emmy awards won’t be presented at a ceremony until September 12, but technical categories will be recognized at the Creative Arts Emmys, held this weekend.

Boseman died of colon cancer in August 2020 at the age of 43. Although he was diagnosed with stage III disease back in 2016, his death came as a shock to the industry as he kept his entire treatment of the disease a secret, even amid heavy chemotherapy.

Speech performance in What If…? It was one of the actor’s last works. In 2021, Boseman was also posthumously nominated for the Oscarfor his work on The Supreme Voice of the Blues (2020).

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