Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o says the cancer storyline in her new film “A Quiet Place: Day One” was therapeutic.
“12 Years A Slave” star Lupita Nyong’o has received so much praise for her performance in the new film “A Quiet Place: Day One.” In the film, the famous actor plays a terminally ill patient.
Speaking about the storyline, she revealed that the role helped her deal with her shock over her ‘Black Panther’ co-star and friend Chadwick Boseman’s death. Bozeman was killed by colon cancer in 2020 after keeping it a secret for years.
In a chat with People, Lupita said: “It was scary to have to go there… (the character) is 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. 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 continued, “I definitely was thinking about that a lot. What I came to realise is that it’s really important to be reminded of our mortality, because then we live life just a little more intentionally. When we think we have all the time in the world, we can really take people for granted and experiences for granted.”
