Lupita Nyong’o Reveals She Learned Of Chadwick Boseman’s Death In Text From Viola Davis

Lupita Nyong’o was reflecting connected the passing of her bully person and co-star Chadwick Boseman arsenic she deed the promotional circuit for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The sequel to the 2018 Marvel blockbuster arrives connected November 11, but without the main prima from the original, arsenic Chadwick, who played T’Challa/Black Panther, died successful August 2020 astatine the property of 43 pursuing a four-year conflict with colon cancer. Lupita revealed she learned of his bittersweet decease done a substance from her Hollywood peer, Viola Davis, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Lupita Nyong’o said she learned of the passing of Chadwick Boseman from a substance from Viola Davis. (Everett Collection)

“I couldn’t judge it,” Lupita explained. “I was paralyzed.” The interaction was immense, arsenic Lupita said she knew helium was sick, but had nary thought helium was terminally ill. “Losing your centerpiece, everything changed,” she continued. “When you accidental the satellite rotated astir him, it revolved astir him, it did.”

“He had an aura,” she added. “He was the leader, and we were each bully with it.”

Roughly 10 days aft his tragic passing, Lupita took to her Instagram to stock a heartbreaking tribute to Chadwick, saying her words travel “from a spot of hopelessness,” but nevertheless she wanted to “honor a antheral who had large hope.”

Lupita said she was ‘paralyzed’ erstwhile she heard the quality of Chadwick’s death. (Everett Collection)

“I retrieve being struck by his quiet, almighty presence,” she wrote, successful part. “He had nary airs astir him, but determination was a higher frequence that helium seemed to run from. You got the consciousness that helium was afloat contiguous and besides someway afloat alert of things successful the distant future.”

In the interview, Lupita besides revealed she agreed with Marvel’s determination not to recast T’Challa. “That is not the decease of the Black Panther, that’s the full point,” she told the outlet. “It’s laying to remainder [T’Challa] and allowing for existent beingness to pass the communicative of the movies. I cognize that determination are each sorts of reasons wherefore radical privation him to beryllium recast, but I don’t person the patience. I don’t person the beingness of mind, oregon I don’t person the objectivity to reason with that. I don’t. I’m precise biased.”