It took Lupita Nyong’o about a week and a half to finally break her silence on the painful loss of her friend and co-star Chadwick Boseman. As you know, the Black Panther actor died after a 4 years long secret battle with cancer on August 28.
He was only 43 years old and his death shocked the whole world, including many close to him since he’d kept his battle with colon cancer for himself, and his close family members, of course.
That being said, many of his Marvel co-stars as well as others in the industry have already paid touching tributes to him but it looks like Lupita needed some more time to process things and gather her thoughts and feelings.
The actress took to her IG account earlier today to remember the man ‘who made the most of his time.’
She admitted to having written her emotional message ‘from a place of hopelessness’ but stressed that she wanted to ‘honor a man who had great hope.’
Lupita went on to state that she was ‘struggling to think and speak about my friend, Chadwick Boseman, in the past tense. It doesn’t make sense. The news of his passing is a punch to my gut every morning. I am aware that we are all mortal, but you come across some people in life that possess an immortal energy, that seem like they have existed before, that are exactly where they are supposed to always be — here. Chadwick was one of those people.’
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The two acted as love interests in Black Panther and it sounds like they were quite close behind the scenes as well.
The Oscar winner described Chadwick Boseman as ‘a man who made the most of his time, and somehow also managed to take his time. I didn’t know him for long, but he had a profound effect on me in the time that I did. I remember being struck by his quiet, powerful presence. He had no airs about him, but there was a higher frequency that he seemed to operate from. You got the sense that he was fully present and also somehow fully aware of things in the distant future.’
Check out her tribute in its entirety to learn more about what she had to say.