When first shown a clip of her character and Boseman’s T’Challa in the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther, Nyong’o was silent and became emotional. After a few seconds, the Kenyan actress revealed she has not watched the movie since Boseman’s death from colon cancer at age 43 in 2020. “The grief is the love, and no place to put it,” she said. She politely declined to move onto the next clip: “No, no… It’s fine. I don’t want run away from the tears or the grief. You just live with it. That experience will never be separate from the love that was formed.”
She continued, “I watch this clip and I’m filled with grief and I don’t know whether I’ll ever be done shedding my tears from losing my friend. But I’m like, we get to see him alive. And that’s so wonderful.”
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She gave a fantastic interview recently to the Little Gold Men podcast while promoting “Wild Robot.” Definitely worth a listen if you need some quality content during a long drive.