Chadwick Boseman 'channeled the divine,' Viola Davis says at his Walk of Fame ceremony

Chadwick Boseman received his posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star Thursday, with Viola Davis delivering an emotional tribute to the late actor’s legacy.

Davis, his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” co-star, called Boseman “a mighty elixir” of human connection, saying she could not speak of him as “gone.”

Boseman died at 43 in 2020 from colon cancer that he kept private while filming major movies including “Black Panther” and “Da 5 Bloods.”

Viola Davis made her feelings quite clear Thursday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: She misses Chadwick Boseman almost unbearably.

So close to unbearably that — even though it’s been more than five years since his death — Boseman’s co-star in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” started her speech at his star dedication ceremony by saying she couldn’t refer to h