'Black Panther' Director Reveals Final Conversation With Chadwick Boseman Before Actor's Death

"Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler has broken down his final conversation with Chadwick Boseman before the actor's death in 2020.

In an episode of the "Wakanda Forever: The Official Black Panther" podcast, Coogler said their final conversation centered around "Black Panther" and his wedding plans.

Coogler remembered calling the late actor a couple of weeks before his death to ask "if he wanted to read the script before I got notes from the studio." He said Boseman refused because he did not want to get in the way of the studio's notes, but Coogler found out later on that was not the real reason.

"I found out later he was too tired to read anything," he said.

"I could tell he was laying down when we were talking. He kicked [Taylor] Simone out because he told her he didn't want her to hear anything that could get him in trouble with his NDA," Coogler tearfully recalled. "She didn't want to leave. I could tell something was up."

The director said his final conversation with Boseman also included his wedding plans. "He was talking about how many people were coming," he said, adding the late actor also asked him about his child after he was unable to attend the baby shower of his and his wife, Zinzi Evans', baby.

Coogler said Boseman died a couple of weeks after their final conversation. He said he couldn't believe it when he received a call from his manager, Charles King, telling him Boseman had passed.

"I didn't want to believe it, so I called Denzel [Washington] and I spoke to him, and we thought it might be a rumor, so I texted Chad," he said. "Everything about Chad was unique. How he lived and how he died was unique."

In an interview last month, Coogler opened up about his pain after Boseman's death.

"I didn't know if I could make another movie period, let alone another 'Black Panther' movie, because it hurt a lot," he told Entertainment Weekly.

He also revealed how his last conversations with Boseman made him change his mind about walking away from the business.

"I was poring over a lot of our conversations that we had, towards what I realized was the end of his life. I decided that it made more sense to keep going," he said.