Hollywood History: Michael B. Jordan Got Chadwick Boseman’s All My Children Role, Boseman Was Fired for complaining?

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Michael B. Jordan Got Chadwick Boseman’s All My Children Role After Boseman Was Fired
By Bethy Squires

Photo: Charley Gallay/2014 Getty Images

Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman’s paths crossed long before Black Panther. Both men had brief stints on the long-running soap All My Children, although Boseman’s was way shorter. According to The Wrap’s Oscar issue, Boseman was brought onto the soap as Reggie Montgomery, a teen adopted by Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane.

Boseman objected to how the character was written, as a stereotypical thug. “I remember going home and thinking, ‘Do I say something to them about this? Do I just do it?’ And I couldn’t just do it. I had to voice my opinions and put my stamp on it,” he said.​

Boseman voiced his opinions, and was promptly fired for being to difficult, but by the time Jordan got the role, some of the more stereotypical edges had been sanded off the part. “They said, ‘You are too much trouble,’ but they took my suggestions, or some of them,” said Boseman. “And for me, honestly, that’s what this is about.” Jordan expressed his gratitude for what Boseman had done: “I’m younger than Chad, and I was coming into All My Children fresh off The Wire — wide open, still learning. I was playing this role not knowing that a lot of the things I was going through were because of what he’d already done for me.”

 

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‘All My Children’ Fired Chadwick Boseman When He Complained About His Stereotypical Character (And Replaced Him With Michael B. Jordan)
Posted on Friday, January 4th, 2019 by Chris Evangelista




Black Panther co-stars Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan already had a connection before appearing in the Marvel film: they once both played the same role. Boseman worked for a week on the soap opera All My Children, only to be fired after he voiced objections to the racial stereotypes inherent to his character. After his dismissal, Jordan was brought in to fill the part.


It’s no secret that Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan both played the same part on All My Children – anyone could look that up on IMDb. But we now know exactly what happened, thanks to a recent Wrap interview with Boseman and Jordan. According to Boseman, he had problems with how the character – Reggie Montgomery – was written. Specifically, he thought the character was too much of a racial stereotype.

“When I got it, I was like, ‘This is not part of my manifesto. This is not part of what I want to do. How can I make it work?’” Boseman says in the interview. “Because with a soap opera, you don’t know the full scope of what’s gonna happen — you don’t know where they’re gonna take the character, because they don’t always know where the character is going. And because of that, there’s possibly room for me to adjust this and change it and make it so it’s stereotypical on the page but not on the screen.”

Boseman voiced his concerns, which resulted in him losing the part. Jordan, who was coming off a role on The Wire, then got the job. But there’s a silver lining here: according to Boseman, even though All My Children fired him, they also used some of the suggestions he made about the character. “They said, ‘You are too much trouble,’ but they took my suggestions, or some of them. And for me, honestly, that’s what this is about.”

“I’m younger than Chad, and I was coming into All My Children fresh off The Wire — wide open, still learning,” Jordan adds. “I was playing this role not knowing that a lot of the things I was going through were because of what he’d already done for me.”

And of course, we all know what eventually happened: the two actors went on to become superstars, appearing in Marvel movies and more. “It’s hard to speak in the moment about how things we do can affect other people. But this is a pure example, right here on the spot,” Jordan adds. “[T]o understand how what people do now can directly affect what other people do in the future. And the work that we’re doing on Black Panther is hopefully doing the same thing for the next group of actors that are coming up.”

 

[34real]

Voice your opinion, stand on it and sleep at night and let them take it,say nothing and spend years regretting it......it's how it goes

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Greatest black actor of all time.

Denzel woulda did that shit in a heartbeat.

Breaking in single mother houses and stealing shit.

 

[playahaitian]

Voice your opinion, stand on it and sleep at night and let them take it,say nothing and spend years regretting it......it's how it goes

Wakanda Forever

 

[TENT]

Good to see him push through and make himself a success. Lots of black actors out there working in restaurants. Shiiiittt.

 

[clitsational]

Denzel woulda did that shit in a heartbeat.

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[mcguyver]

Greatest black actor of all time.

Denzel woulda did that shit in a heartbeat.

Breaking in single mother houses and stealing shit.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

I’m
Lying?

And he shot at the homies

 

[mcguyver]

I’m
Lying?

And he shot at the homies

Yes.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Yes.

That whole Macy gray scene was terrible.

 

[Gods_Debris]

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[Mello Mello]

See how they do us.

Too much trouble then take the suggestions and find someone else to do it.

Fuck the creators of that show.

 

[LSN]

wtf lol?

 

[playahaitian]

See how they do us.

Too much trouble then take the suggestions and find someone else to do it.

Fuck the creators of that show.

I was actually watching AMC back then

Chadwick was right.

And MBJ did a great job in that (revamped) role...great job

 

[tajshan]

Welcome to Hollywood....

 

[Gods_Debris]

wtf lol?

you ain't seen shit. that whole turd of a movie is a fucking discredit to our race. denzel did it for dental work too. his teefus was/is jacked the fuck up apparently.

 

[jack walsh13]

Damn I never knew this

 

[godofwine]

Does anybody know when they're going to come out with the Black panther Blu-ray with all the deleted scenes and director commentary and all of the extras?

 

[playahaitian]

Does anybody know when they're going to come out with the Black panther Blu-ray with all the deleted scenes and director commentary and all of the extras?

never apparently

 

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[godofwine]

I've seen this. I heard there are more. Ryan coogler said that he was recording the director's commentary back last May

 

[dasmybikepunk]

They eaten, I can't be mad @ that, fuck a soap opera but propz to more blackmen working in film and hopefully the trend continues. Gossip garbage aside..

 

[playahaitian]

I've seen this. I heard there are more. Ryan coogler said that he was recording the director's commentary back last May

I hope this is true

cause word was Disney may need some of those abandoned scenes dialogue music etc...for FUTURE films

(which is apparently SOP at the mouse house)

IT NEEDS and DESERVES Coogler's voice on there.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

I'm proud of both these. Bruhs making .Power moves in hollywood...

But in that first pic...

Things looking .kind of sugary tho...

 

[godofwine]

I'm proud of both these. Bruhs making .Power moves in hollywood...

But in that first pic...

Things looking .kind of sugary tho...

Bruh, after Black Panther hit theaters, Chadwick went to one of those parties and left with Regina Hall.

I was jelly than a motherfuker

 

[snark9]

all i remember about that show was a crazy bitch named janet who trapped her twin sister in a well, so she could impersonate her and marry her fiancee.

 

[playahaitian]

all i remember about that show was a crazy bitch named janet who trapped her twin sister in a well, so she could impersonate her and marry her fiancee.

yup!

 

[playahaitian]

all i remember about that show was a crazy bitch named janet who trapped her twin sister in a well, so she could impersonate her and marry her fiancee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Dillon

 

[snark9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Dillon

LOL, That's crazy

I guess you can find anything online, LOL

 

[Mr.Mojo]

Shout out to tad Martin..he had the finest bitch on that show but he was always fuckin up.i wanted to fuck Dixie so damn bad as a kid.

Adam Chandler was a str8 pimp back in the days.he was smashin all them brawds.lol him and tad used to share hoes I think.

 

[ronmch20]

Good of Jordan to recognize and publicly give Boseman proper credit for his principled stand.

 

[850credit]

Greatest black actor of all time.

Sidney Poitier but I feel you

 

[playahaitian]

Shout out to tad Martin..he had the finest bitch on that show but he was always fuckin up.i wanted to fuck Dixie so damn bad as a kid.

Adam Chandler was a str8 pimp back in the days.he was smashin all them brawds.lol him and tad used to share hoes I think.

They don't hear you.