By Leshi Adebayo
Academy award-winning actress, Lupita Nyong’o, has paid her tributes to Black Panther co-star, Chadwick Boseman on Saturday, which marked the first anniversary of his death.
Nyong’o, who starred alongside the late Chadwick as “Nakia, the War Dog” in the 2018 blockbuster, Black Panther, shared a picture of herself laughing with Boseman via her Twitter page.
She tweeted, “I did not know that I could miss both his laughter and his silence in equal measure. I do. I do… One year after his passing, the memory of @chadwickboseman remains this alive in me.”
The news of Boseman’s death came as a rude shock to the world last year after his four-year private battle with cancer.
A statement was later released by his family, that the actor was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2016.
The talented actor, who was described as “a true fighter”, was said to have filmed several movies including Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ “during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.”
Before his death, Boseman was best known for his ground breaking performance in Oscar nominated movie, ‘Black Panther’. His last performance in Netflix’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ earned him a post-humous Golden Globe award, as the Best Actor in a motion picture drama in 2021. He was aged 43 at the time of his death.
Source: The Punch
