レティーシャ・ライト is speaking candidly about how her ブラックパンサー 共演 チャドウィック・ボーズマン‘s death has impacted her and changed the way she looks at her relationships with others.

NS ブラックパンサー: ワカンダフォーエバー 女優, 29, 言った 保護者 in a recent interview that the death of Boseman — who died at the age of 43 8月に 2020 after a private fight with colon cancer — has completely changed the way she interacts with her loved ones.

Wright said she constantly texts her cast members “to tell them I love them” any chance she gets, especially her co-star グリラに電話する と ブラックパンサー 監督 ライアン・クーグラー. She said she also texts Coogler, 36, 尋ねる “how he is.”

“I’m not going to delay that anymore because tomorrow’s not promised,” ライトは言った. “Since Chad died, I’m so afraid to lose people.”

“You think you have time, and that’s the thing I’ve learned,” 彼女は付け加えた. “These things make you realize it’s important to reach out to people you love.”

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The actress also opened up to 保護者 about how she learned of Boseman’s death, noting that she woke up in her apartment and found an email saying “my condolences,” which surprised her. “私は好きだった, ‘My condolences for what?’ ”

After attempting to reach out to Boseman, she found herself unsuccessful and turned to her other ブラックパンサー 共演, ダニエル・カルーヤ, to find out the truth.

“私は好きだった, ‘Bro you have five seconds to tell me this is not true? This is horrible. どうしたの?’ And there was this dead silence,” Wright recalled. “私は好きだった, ‘I think this is true, but I’m just asking you to tell me that it’s not.’ And he didn’t.”

She then said that Kaluuya, 33, eventually broke the news to her after she told him she had been trying to contact Boseman.

“… He said ‘Tish, the family … ,’ and the second he said that I just lost it,” 彼女は言いました. “I was punching my apartment up, I was screaming. I was just so angered.”

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Wright admitted to バラエティ earlier this month that she experienced a “downward spiral” after Boseman’s death, それを追加する “haunted” her that she “couldn’t say goodbye to him” or have her “ブラックパンサー family to share in that moment.”

The script for ブラックパンサー: ワカンダフォーエバー had to be rewritten by Coogler following Boseman’s death, and the director had conversations with Wright about moving forward without the star.

最終的に, Wright said she thinks Boseman would have been proud of the new film in an interview with NBCナイトリーニュース.

“The emotions are really raw. We really just gave our hearts to this and gave the truth of what we were feeling to the project. Definitely needed to balance it,” ” ライトは言った. “Because there is a lot of adventure, a lot of humor in this movie. But also a strong feeling of purpose and a strong feeling of love towards our brother.”