As his Hollywood career boomed, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, his family said in a statement announcing his death at age 43 on Friday. He’d been diagnosed at stage 3 in 2016 but never spoke publicly about it.

“Black Panther” scored $111.7 million at the North American box office in its second week.

Ryan Coogler can, in part, thank Kirk Franklin and his family for that.