Chadwick Boseman is the latest actor to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The late "Black Panther" actor received a posthumous star on Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday and was honored by his widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, as well as director Ryan Coogler and Oscar winner Viola Davis.
Boseman died in August 2020 from colon cancer.
The actor was most famously known for portraying T'Challa/Black Panther in the 2018 Marvel film "Black Panther." He also earned accolades and critical acclaim for his roles in "21 Bridges," Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods," and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
In her tribute to Boseman on Thursday, Davis, who starred in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" with Boseman in 2020, called her late co-star a "castle."
"Chadwick was a mighty, mighty elixir that sort of stirred up that alchemy that we're all in search of, which is meaning," she said. "I celebrate him today, and I say to him, I hoped all the angels in heaven just sang him to a beautiful rest. And I thank him for what he left behind in me, which is a burning ember that always guides me to a higher meaning of my work and my purpose."
She added, "This star, as beautiful as it is on the Walk of Fame, shines a whole lot less brighter than Chadwick is in heaven."
Coogler, who directed Boseman in "Black Panther" in 2018, recalled the actor's "fearless and firm yet gentle" leadership.
He also called Boseman "ageless," saying that he "never really knew how old he was until I went to one of his birthday parties."
"Chad felt thousands of years old," Coogler continued. "He was that calm and that wise. It was a very unnerving feeling to be around him."
Ledward Boseman, who accepted the star on behalf of her late husband, took the stage last to share a few words.
"Chad taught all of us a great deal," she said. "His heart was so vast he could give each and every person a specific part of him and still have so much left to share with the world."
Ledward Boseman also shared a few words from Boseman about his "instructions for creative work."
"Write the vision and make it plain," she said, recounting his advice. "Keep that word fastened in your journal, and shut it in your bolted drawer until the appointed time. Let the ideas, the visions that God gives you fester inside of you. Let the word that he has put inside of you bubble over."
"Do not speak it to another until the time appointed by God," she continued. "The secrecy of the vision is the second stone laid in the building process. It is the project's fortress. For a word spoken too early on the ears of men is a bulldozer and a stumbling block. Forget the self that entered the process and be made into a new creature through the work."
She added, "Chad, it was our honor to watch you transform and our honor to be transformed by you. We love you so much."
Also in attendance at Thursday's ceremony were Boseman's "Black Panther" co-stars Michael B. Jordan and Letitia Wright. Boseman's brothers Derrick L. Boseman and Kevin Boseman also attended the Walk of Fame ceremony to honor their late sibling.
