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‘All My Children’ Casting Director Recalls Hiring Michael B. Jordan After Chadwick Boseman Was Fired

Before going toe-to-toe in 'Black Panther', Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan's paths almost crossed on 'All My Children'.

All My Children casting director Judy Blye Wilson recently recalled hiring Jordan to play Reggie Montgomery on the ABC soap opera back in 2003 after Boseman was fired from the role. In 2020, the late Boseman’s longtime agent Michael Green claimed that the actor was fired from the soap after objecting to the writers “ perpetuating the stereotypes ” of Reggie’s mother being a crackhead and his father having left. The pair eventually worked together on 2018’s Black Panther, in which Boseman played the titular MCU hero and Jordan portrayed villainous Erik Killmonger.

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