“I just remember that moment and I will always hold that dear to me,” she says.
Janelle Monae’s memories of the lateChadwick Bosemanseem to all involve dancing.
“We ate, we listened to music,” she added.
“I just remember Chadwick that night being so present.
He was playing drums.
We were dancing.”
The singer-songwriter-actress would meet Boseman again, months before he would die from colon cancer on Aug. 28.
“I had a chance to dance with him one last time this year,” she shared.
“It was at an Oscars party and he tapped me on my shoulder.
I’ll never forget it.
He tapped me and he said, ‘Let’s have this dance.’
And we danced fo a good three, four minutes, smiling.”
Monae said they both lovedJames Brown.
Boseman had also played Brown in 2014’sGet On Up.
They were “trying to figure out who could out-James-Brown each other dancing,” she said.
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