Hollywood tributes continue to pour in for Chadwick Boseman
nypost.comactor Chadwick Boseman, who was lauded for his vast talent and dignity, a day after his death, at age 43, from colon cancer — an illness he fought in secret for four years with the same quiet courage he showed in his on-screen portrayals of heroes.Boseman left behind a wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, who he married in the last months of his life.Accolades poured in from the hills of Hollywood to the trenches of pediatric cancer hospitals, where he had performed selfless charity work.Boseman inspired millions as the charismatic “Black Panther” in the 2018 Marvel blockbuster, but none more poignantly than the young patients he visited, even as he fought the same illness, his own cancer, in private.To them, Boseman was King T’Challa, a superhero.
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