Chadwick Boseman honoured with Disney Legends Award

This year’s Disney’s D23 Expo kicked off on Friday with Disney Legends Awards. Actor Chadwick Boseman, who passed away on August 28, 2020, was honoured with the award posthumously. The company presents the award to “an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the Disney legacy.” Chadwick’s brother Derrick Boseman accepted the award on behalf of the late actor.

“First of all, I wish he was here to receive it. Him not being



here has been a point of immense pain for my whole family,” said Derrick while receiving the award. In his acceptance speech, he added, how the Black Panther star honoured all his contracts, “except the last one.”

He said, “He honoured his scripts with his love, his blood, his sweat, his tears. As he played these roles, he was taking chemo simultaneously. Some of these roles had him doing things that were physical. Chad was an amazing person.”