Taylor Simone Leward Accepts Chadwick Boseman’s Posthumus Critics Replacement Awards: “He Deserves This”

Last week, Chadwick Boseman won a posthumous Golden Globe for his aim in Ma Rainey’s Dusky Bottom and the celebration of the late, huge actor’s huge work persevered on Sunday evening as he, as soon as extra, won for his efficiency in the George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of the enduring August Wilson play.

Boseman’s fundamental other Taylor Simone Ledward accredited the award and used to be emotional with the reputation for her late husband’s work. “It’s miles so exhausting to catch a celebratory in these moments,” she said whereas accepting the award on his behalf. She added that she and all his beloved ones are ok with him — no longer handiest for his work but for who he used to be as a particular person.

“His work on this film deserves this — he deserves this,” she added.

Ledward went on to command that Boseman would thank his mother, father, God and all those who charted the path before him. She additionally said that he would emphasize the “importance of [Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom] and the importance of Dusky voices telling Dusky Stories.”

“As I fair no longer too lengthy ago learn, societies grow huge when venerable males plant trees whose shade they know they might be able to even by no ability sit down,” she cited. She persevered, close to Boseman’s work: “Our society can even very smartly be a miles shout from huge, but I know the seeds you planted will grow into forests and at some point, we too will be gigantic ample to reach the heavens.”