Letitia Wright Is 'So Afraid to Lose People' After Death of 'Black Panther' Costar Chadwick Boseman

Mar. 15, 2025

Letitia Wright.Photo: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty for Flannels

Letitia Wrightis speaking candidly about how herBlack PanthercostarChadwick Boseman’s death has impacted her and changed the way she looks at her relationships with others.

TheBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreveractress, 29, toldThe Guardianin a recent interview that thedeath of Boseman— who died at the age of 43 in August 2020 after a private fight with colon cancer — has completelychanged the way she interactswith her loved ones.

Wright said she constantly texts her cast members “to tell them I love them” any chance she gets, especially her co-starDanai GuriraandBlack PantherdirectorRyan Coogler. She said she also texts Coogler, 36, asking “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,” she added. “These things make you realize it’s important to reach out to people you love.”

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Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright inBlack Panther(2018).Marvel/Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock

The actress also opened up toThe Guardianabout 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. “I was like, ‘My condolences for what?’ "

After attempting to reach out to Boseman, she found herself unsuccessful and turned to her otherBlack Panthercostar,Daniel Kaluuya, to find out the truth.

“I was like, ‘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. “I was like, ‘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,” she said. “I was punching my apartment up, I was screaming. I was just so angered.”

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Ultimately, Wright said she thinks Boseman would havebeen proudof the new film in an interview withNBC Nightly News.

“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.”

source: people.com