Lupita Nyong’o felt emotional playing a woman riddled with cancer in her recent film A Quiet Place: Day One.
The Oscar winner, 41, plays Sam, a poet who is fighting for her life against a terminal illness, as well as an alien invasion that hunt based on sound. Sam has a service cat named Frodo, and struggles to avoid the lethal creatures in order to stay alive.
Nyong’o has lost her close friend and Black Panther co-star Chadwick Boseman to colon cancer in 2020 — a battle he had kept private.
“In the end, it was actually very therapeutic because I had just experienced not too many years ago the death of Chadwick Boseman, which shook me to my core,” says Nyong’o, who has a photo of herself with Boseman as her Instagram profile image. “I definitely was thinking about that a lot.”
Boseman spawned a career expanding more than twenty years, and is best known for his role as the Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
*Cover image via Paramount Pictures