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Posted by UpNow Social on Monday, August 12, 2019
If you dedicate yourself to what you do, a helping hand comes along.
Denzel Washington once funded Chadwick Boseman’s acting classes, and he’s still waiting for the “Black Panther” star to pay him back.
Washington, who’s starring in “The Equalizer 2,” appeared on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Thursday and discussed the role he inadvertently played in Boseman’s becoming a successful actor. Washington famously paid for Boseman to study acting, long before Boseman was in the Marvel movie.
The 63-year-old actor told Colbert that when he saw Boseman and Ryan Coogler, who wrote and directed “Black Panther,” at a New York screening, he jokingly asked the star when he planned on returning his money.
“I saw Ryan Coogler and Chad, and he said, ‘Oh, you know, I just wanted to thank you for paying,’ and I said, yeah, that’s why I’m here. I’m not here to see — I liked the movie, ‘Black Panther,’ yeah, good, Wakanda Forever, but where’s my money?'” Washington recalled.
Earlier this year, Boseman appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and said Washington was one of the benefactors who gave money to a scholarship program that enabled students at Howard University to study acting in England as part of the British American Drama Academy’s Midsummer in Oxford program, held at Balliol College at Oxford University.