LOS ANGELES — 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 him as “gone” and couldn’t link the word “death” to his memory.

“Chadwick, you channeled the divine,” said Davis, 60. “You were a conduit, a source of connectiveness that every single human being … that is on this Earth is searching for. Trying to connect to each other, trying to connect to our art, trying to know — like the Cherokee birth blessing — may we live long enough to understand why we were born.

“That was Chadwick. More

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