‘There Is A Place For Us,’ Chadwick Boseman Said After SAG Win
Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman took to social media with gratitude after he and his castmates won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night.
“‘To Be young, gifted and black…’ There is a place for us. Thank you to SAG-AFRTA for the appreciation and celebration of our work,” he said, referencing the famous Nina Simone song.
To date, Black Panther has earned more than $1 billion at the box office.
Backstage at the SAG Awards, Chadwick explained why he used the lyrics: “To be young, gifted, and black.”
“It speaks to the fact that you have the same dreams as other people [and] you have equal if not more talent at times, but you don’t have the same opportunities,” the actor explained, according to Entertainment Weekly.
“You don’t necessarily have the same doors open, the same nepotism or the same money, the same resources that could be put forward for you to achieve dreams. So when you aspire to do something that is outside the realm of what the world would see you doing, to be young gifted and black is all of that. It’s to have everything but not quite be able to grasp it, and to be able to persevere through all of that.”