Michael B. Jordan Gets Emotional Worrying He Wasn't There for Chadwick Boseman at the End: 'Weighs on Me' (Exclusive)

Nearly five years after Chadwick Boseman's death, his friends and colleague still have a difficult time talking about what he meant to them.

In the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, which premieres on March 28, Boseman's Black Panther costar Michael B. Jordan discusses the tremendous impact of Boseman, who died in 2020 at age 43 of complications from colon cancer. In an exclusive pre-release clip from the first episode, "Leading Black Men in Hollywood," Jordan, 38, talks about what he wishes he could have done differently in their relationship.

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"It's something I think about often, you know," he says. "Not checking up as much as I should. It's something that weighs on me also. I'm not trying to turn this into a therapy session, but Chadwick is special. I was looking forward to, like, you know..."

He trails off, unable to finish his thought, as the interviewer tries to comfort him.

Daniel Kaluuya, the Oscar-winning actor who costarred with Jordan and Boseman in Black Panther, then weighs in on what made Boseman an "amazing" presence on the set.

"The last time I saw him, we did a Q&A, and they were like, 'Who's the people who that in this process that you think are amazing?' And I just said, 'Chad,' " Kaluuya, 36, recalls. "Because being the lead is a really hard job. And it's a thankless job. It works because all the characters shine around you. You know what I'm saying?"

He then uses his own career to illustrate the point he's trying to make. "Really and truly, like in Get Out, they all shined. And I'm just in the pocket. Nope — Keke [Palmer] shined. And I'm in the pocket. It's a thankless job, if you're gonna do it the right way. If you're serving the piece, serving the story."

In addition to appearances by Jordan and Kaluuya, Number One on the Call Sheet features interviews with such A-listers as Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Foxx, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Will Smith, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldberg, Taraji P. Henson, Vivica A. Fox, Tiffany Haddish and more. The first episode was directed by Reginald Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang), while the second episode, "Leading Black Women in Hollywood," was helmed by Shola Lynch.

"Chadwick Boseman had an inherent nobility that made him the obvious choice for roles like Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and the Black Panther," Hudlin tells PEOPLE. "The day he left us everyone was calling each other, emotionally wrecked. To know Chadwick was to love him, simple as that. There was no way I could make this film without capturing that sense of loss we all felt."

Number One on the Call Sheet is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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