Lupita Nyong’o opened up about what it was like to discover the rewritten “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” script while processing the death of Chadwick Boseman.
In a special interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Nyong’o, who reprises the role of Nakia — a fighter, activist and lover of T’Challa, the king of Wakanda [Boseman]” — in the upcoming “Black Panther” sequel, recalled a Zoom meeting she had with writer-director Ryan Coogler regarding his plan for the new script, which previously centered on Boseman’s character and evolution as a powerful warrior.
Instead of recasting T’Challa, given that the script was “very much rooted in [his] perspective”, as Coogler noted, the writer and his co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, decided to pen a new script that would include the leader’s death and reframe the story from another character’s perspective, essentially a different Wakandan becoming Black Panther. READ MORE: Lupita Nyong’o Pays Tribute To Chadwick Boseman Two Years After His Death “Every time I thought about what the next ‘Black Panther’ could be, my imagination fell short,” Nyong’o said of moving on in the franchise without the “centerpiece” of the film, the man who played her king. “Even just talking about ‘Black Panther’ in the midst of still grieving Chadwick, it was really complicated emotionally to do,” she continued. “Ryan wrote something that so honoured the truth of what every one of us was feeling, those of us who knew Chadwick.” READ MORE: Chadwick Boseman Honoured With Posthumous Emmy For Performance In Animated Marvel Series “He created something that could honour that and carry the story forward,” she added, noting that, “by the end, I was weeping.” Boseman suddenly passed away in August 2020 of
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