Lupita Nyong’o Honors Chadwick Boseman on the Three-Year Anniversary of His Death: ‘It Took Months to Trust the Feeling of Joy Again’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Three years ago today, I experienced a singular pain at the news of Chadwick Boseman’s death,” Lupita Nyong’o wrote in a new tribute to her late “Black Panther” co-star.

Boseman passed away Aug. 28, 2020 from colon cancer, a diagnosis he never discussed publicly. Nyong’o added that “the confusion” over Boseman’s death “was so profound that it took months to trust the feeling of joy again.” “This is a photo I took on film at the airport as we arrived in South Korea in 2018,” the Oscar-winning actor wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of Boseman. “We had just learned to do the baby heart with our fingers.

Here Chadwick was adding his suave flare. We spent a glorious 72 hours there, and the memory fills me with so much joy.” “Death is hard to understand, maybe even harder to accept,” she wrote. “But the love generated from the life he lived will fuel every anniversary marking his absence.

Chadwick may no longer be in our photos, but he will always be in our hearts.” Boseman and Nyong’o starred together in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” which won them the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding ensemble.