Lupita Nyong’o is opening up about playing a woman with cancer in and why it was a personal and “therapeutic” experience for her. In the , the Oscar-winning actress portrays Sam, a poet who is not only battling terminal cancer but also aliens hunting humans based on sound. Nyong’o recently told that it was “scary to have to go there” for a role that sees her character “really facing their mortality, even before this apocalypse takes place and whose life is slipping between her fingers.
” “That was daunting to have to go there, psychologically and emotionally,” she added. But the role was notably personal because her close friend and co-star following a private battle with colon cancer in August 2020. “In the end, it was actually very therapeutic because I had just experienced not too many years ago the death of , which shook me to my core,” Nyong’o explained.
“I definitely was thinking about that a lot.” “What I came to realize is that it’s really important to be reminded of our mortality because then we live life just a little more intentionally,” the actress continued. “When we think we have all the time in the world, we can really take people for granted and experiences for granted.
” Shortly after Boseman’s death, Nyong’o in a lengthy Instagram post, writing in part at the time, “When we came together to make , I remember being struck by his quiet, powerful presence. He had no airs about him, but there was a higher frequency tha.