The Black Panther cast member says she knew the late Hollywood star before his global fame, and describes him as a kind and generous person.
Ghanaian-American actress Aba Arthur has spoken about what it felt like to work on Black Panther, the Marvel film that became a cultural landmark for African and Black audiences worldwide, and about her memories of its late star, Chadwick Boseman.
In an interview on Joy Prime Time, Arthur said she was in awe of the people around her on set. Asked who impressed her most, she did not single out one name.
"Everybody, because I'm a fan of the craft," she said.
Knowing Boseman before the fame
Arthur's most personal recollection was of Boseman, who played T'Challa, the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. She said she had met him outside the film business before he became a household name.
"A very kind soul, a very generous human and it's interesting, I had the pleasure of knowing him before all the fame and success," she said.
She described watching his rise in Hollywood as something she was glad to have witnessed.
Boseman died in 2020. His performance as T'Challa made Black Panther one of the most talked-about films of the last decade, particularly among audiences across Africa and in the African diaspora in the United States, where the film's imagery of an advanced, uncolonised African nation struck a strong chord.
Why Ghanaians are paying attention
For Ghanaian readers at home and in the United States, Arthur's story sits in a familiar pattern: a Ghanaian-American finding work in major international productions while keeping a visible connection to home.
Arthur featured in Black Panther and has continued to work on the international screen scene. Her comments add a Ghanaian voice to the long line of tributes paid to Boseman since his death, and they come from someone who says she knew him personally rather than only professionally.
Ghanaians in the diaspora have often pointed to roles like hers as evidence that Ghanaian talent is steadily gaining ground in Hollywood, even where the names are not yet widely known at home.
What she did not say
Arthur did not, in the portion of the interview reported, give details of when or where she first met Boseman, nor did she discuss any upcoming projects of her own. She also did not name any other member of the Black Panther cast.
The interview was a reflective one rather than an announcement, and it offered fans a short, personal window into life on one of the biggest film sets of recent years.
Reported first by Adom Online on 2026-09-18. This article was written for our readers based on that report. Follow the link for the original coverage.
