Angela Bassett says Chadwick Boseman is «completely irreplaceable.» The actress played the late actor's mother, Ramonda, in, and touched on the recent news that he would not be recast or digitally recreated in the upcoming sequel.Boseman, who tragically died in August at the age of 43 following a quiet battle with colon cancer, starred as T'Challa, a.k.a Black Panther, the king of the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda.