Boseman was originally cast as Reggie, a character whom he described to The Wrap as “stereotypical” and one-dimensional. The actor, who was 26 at the time, felt conflicted about Reggie’s character and spoke to producers about his issues. He was fired, he told The Wrap, after just a week on the job. Jordan, who was then 16 and fresh off his role in the critically acclaimed HBO series “The Wire,” replaced him. Boseman may have referred to his “All My Children” experience in a Howard University commencement speech last year, when he spoke about playing a role on an unidentified soap opera that he said was “wrapped up in assumptions about us as black folk.”

Source: Huffington Post January 03, 2019 22:07 UTC