ANNOUNCER: BREAKING NEWS ON
"KCAL 9 NEWS" AT 8:00 P.M.
ACTOR CHADWICK BOZEMAN A
BLACK PANTHER HAS DIED AT THE
AGE OF 43.
HIS REPRESENTATIVE SAYS TONIGHT
THAT THE ACTOR PASSED AWAY AFTER
A FOUR-YEAR FIGHT WITH COLON
CANCER.
JUAN: MANY BECAME CONCERNED FOR
HIS HEALTH AFTER HE POSTED THIS
VIDEO ON INSTAGRAM IN APRIL IN
WHICH HE APPEARED VERY THIN.
HE MADE THE VIDEO TO COMMEMORATE
JACKIE ROBINSON DAY.
SUZIE: HE PLAYED THE DODGERS
LEGEND IN THE FILM 42, AND ALSO
THURGOOD MARSHALL AND MARSHALL.
BUT IT WAS HIS
PANTHER THAT CATAPULTED HIM TO
GLOBAL FAME, GOING ON
SAG AWARD FOR BEST ENSEMBLE IN A
MOTION PICTURE AND IT WAS
NOMINATED AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS.
THE STATEMENT WAS POSTED TO HIS
TWITTER PAGE.
IT IS WITH IMMEASURABLE GRIEF
THAT WE CONFIRM THE PASSING OF
CHADWICK BOZEMAN, DIAGNOSED WITH
STAGE THREE COLON CANCER IN
2016, AND HE BATTLED WITH IT
THESE LAST FOUR YEARS AS IT
PROGRESSED TO STAGE FOUR.
SUZIE: A TRUE FIGHTER, HE
PERSEVERED THROUGH IT ALL AND
BROUGHT YOU MANY OF THE FILMS
THAT WE HAVE COME TO LOVE SO
MUCH, MARSHALL, BLACK PANTHER,
AND ALL WERE FILMED DURING
COUNTLESS SURGERIES AND
CHEMOTHERAPY IS.
JUAN: IT WAS THE HONOR TO BRING
BLACK PANTHERS LIFE, THE FAMILY
THANKS YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND
PRAYERS AND ASK THAT YOU
CONTINUE TO RESPECT AGASSI
DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME.
THIS IS A PORTION OF A 2018
INTERVIEW WITH HIM WHEN HE
TALKED ABOUT THE CULTURAL
SIGNIFICANCE OF AS HIS ROLE AS
THE BLACK PANTHER.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE FILM AND
THEATER TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, TO
SEE HOW PEOPLE SHOW UP TO IT, A
RITUAL FESTIVAL.
SO I HAVE SEEN THAT IT IS A
CULTURAL EXPERIENCE.
I DO THINK BECAUSE WE HAD TO
CREATE AN ENTIRE WORLD AND AN
ENTIRE CULTURE, WE HAVE TO DEAL
WITH BOTH A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
ASPECTS ARE AND HOW WE HAVE
ADVANCED, EVEN IN THE SOCIAL
STRUCTURE.
AND THAT WOMEN AND MEN CAN
COEXIST IN AN EVIL PLACE.
YOU KNOW, THOSE ISSUES ARE JUST
PART OF HOW WE TELL THE STORY.
IT IS PATHETIC THAT IT RESONATES
IN THIS TIME.
SUZIE: IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IS
CELEBRATING JACKIE ROBINSON DAY
TODAY.
