Lupita Nyong’o chats with USA TODAY’s Anika Reed about “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and how she remembers her late co-star, Chadwick Boseman.
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Black women are often superheroes in everyday life, shouldering generational and systemic burdens and providing comfort and support for the people in their lives. In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (in theaters Friday), Black women are superheroes on screen, carrying the franchise forward and communicating a language of strength rooted in vulnerability not always afforded to them in film.
The stars of the Ryan Coogler-directed Marvel epic are forging through life-altering changes, powerfully highlighting their characters’ tenderness and tenacity. The death of the film’s star, Chadwick Boseman, and his titular Wakandan leader King T’Challa, pushed the cast into traversing a new path together.
“It was really a therapeutic journey to step into this knowing that you’re not doing it alone, that what you were feeling wasn’t isolated,” says Letitia Wright, whose character Shuri fills the exceedingly large shoes left by the loss of her older brother.
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