레티시아 라이트 is speaking candidly about how her 흑표범 코스타 Chadwick Boseman‘s death has impacted her and changed the way she looks at her relationships with others.

NS 흑표범: 와칸다 포에버 여배우, 29, 말했다 수호자 in a recent interview that the death of Boseman — who died at the age of 43 8 월 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 구리라에게 전화하기 그리고 흑표범 감독 Ryan Coogler. She said she also texts Coogler, 36, 질문 “how he is.”

“I’m not going to delay that anymore because tomorrow’s not promised,” Wright said. “Since Chad died, I’m so afraid to lose people.”

“You think you have time, and that’s the thing I’ve learned,” 그녀는 덧붙였다. “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 수호자 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. “나는 같았다, ‘My condolences for what?’ ”

After attempting to reach out to Boseman, she found herself unsuccessful and turned to her other 흑표범 코스타, 다니엘 칼루야, to find out the truth.

“나는 같았다, ‘Bro you have five seconds to tell me this is not true? This is horrible. What’s going on?’ And there was this dead silence,” Wright recalled. “나는 같았다, ‘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,” 그녀가 말했다. “I was punching my apartment up, I was screaming. I was just so angered.”

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Wright admitted to 다양성 earlier this month that she experienced a “downward spiral” after Boseman’s death, 아무도 당신의 이름을 부르지 않고 당신의 시간이나 두뇌에 대한 요구가없는 조용한 시간입니다. “haunted” her that she “couldn’t say goodbye to him” or have her “흑표범 family to share in that moment.”

The script for 흑표범: 와칸다 포에버 had to be rewritten by Coogler following Boseman’s death, and the director had conversations with Wright about moving forward without the star.

궁극적으로, Wright said she thinks Boseman would have been proud of the new film in an interview with NBC 나이틀리 뉴스.

“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,” ” Wright said. “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.”