'Filled With Grief': Lupita Nyong'o Breaks Down Watching Chadwick Boseman Scene

The "Black Panther" actor participated at a BFI London Film Festival event on Monday and watched a clip of her and Boseman for the first time since his death.

Lupita Nyong’o still misses her late friend Chadwick Boseman — and said she likely always will.

The Oscar winner participated Monday at a BFI London Film Festival event where the conversation turned to “Black Panther” (2018). After watching herself on-screen opposite Boseman in a clip played for the crowd, she began to cry and detailed her grief.

“I have to admit, I haven’t seen the film since Chadwick died, so I’m having a moment,” Nyong’o said onstage, per The Hollywood Reporter. “The grief is just the love, with no place to put it, right … I don’t run away from the tears or the grief, you know? You just live with it.”

“That experience will never be separate from the love that was formed,” she continued.

Boseman died at age 43 in 2020 from colon cancer. The South Carolinian had become a bonafide A-lister only two years prior after starring as the lead in “Black Panther,” which broke box office records in 2018.