“Grief never ends. It changes. It is a process, not a place we stay. It is not a sign of weakness or lack of faith. It is the price we pay for love,” she wrote. Nyong’o on his Instagram account, quoting the words of an anonymous author.
The actress attached a black and white photo to the message. Chadwick Boseman. Role player Black Panther died unexpectedly in 2020 at the age of 43. It turned out that he had been suffering from colon cancer for four years. He informed only a limited group of people close to him about his illness. His death was a shock to fans and colleagues.
Nyong’o often invokes Boseman, most recently while promoting A Quiet Place: Day One, in which she plays a poet who suffers from a serious illness. “(Working on the film) ended up being therapeutic because I had experienced the loss of Chadwick Boseman a few years ago, which really affected me. I’ve been thinking about him a lot lately,” she admitted in June 2024.
The actress added that “it’s important to remember our mortality because then we live a little more consciously.” “When we think we have all the time in the world, we take people and experiences for granted,” she continued.