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How Lupita Nyong’o’s ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Performance Was Inspired by Chadwick Boseman’s Widow · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, critics and fans are
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  Speaker 1: like a raving and how beautifully Black Panther Wakanda Forever
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  Speaker 1: handles the passing of Chadwick Boseman, who played the title
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  Speaker 1: character in the first installment before the coming to his
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  Speaker 1: battle with cancer in Upin Yongo, who plays Nikkia in
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  Speaker 1: the franchise, certainly embodied the spirit of strength and grief
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  Speaker 1: in the film. She tells the Hollywood Reporter her performance,
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  Speaker 1: who was directly inspired by Chadwick's widow Simon's resilience. At
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  Speaker 1: his memorial service, she says, I just bore witness to
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  Speaker 1: the strength she possessed. And I remember being so shocked
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  Speaker 1: because I was broken and here she was just so grounded.
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  Speaker 1: She was like an oak. And when I was getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to play Nikia, I thought about Simone a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Black Panther mcconna for evers in theaters. That's direct from
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood