Lupita Nyong’o Says ‘A Quiet Place’ Cancer Storyline After Chadwick Boseman Loss Was “Therapeutic”: “I Definitely Was Thinking About That A Lot”

While filming A Quiet Place: Day One , Lupita Nyong’o says that Chadwick Boseman was on her mind. In the thriller, the Oscar winner plays a poet with terminal cancer fighting for her life against a backdrop of an alien invasion. “That was daunting to have to go there, psychologically and emotionally,” Nyong’o told People about playing a character who “is really facing their mortality, even before this apocalypse takes place, and whose life is slipping between her fingers.

” Nyong’o thought of her Black Panther co-star, who died of colon cancer in August 2020. Related Stories Commentary Michael Cieply: Thought For A Hot July - Why Not Shake Up The Oscars With a "Midsummer Rule"? News 'A Quiet Place: Day One' Shouts To $99M Global Debut, 'Inside Out 2' Tops $1B, 'Bad Boys: Ride Or Die' Crosses $300M & India's 'Kalki' Has Rip-Roaring Bow - International Box Office “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,” she said. “I definitely was thinking about that a lot.

” Nyong’o said that through this experience, she realized “that it’s really important to be reminded of our mortality, because then we live life just a little more intentionally.” She continued, “When we think we have all the time in the world, we can really take people for granted and experiences for granted.” Last year, Nyong’o remembered Boseman with a touching tribute on .