Lupita Nyong'o "dreaded" shooting 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' without Chadwick Boseman. The 39-year-old actress starred as Nakia in the 2018 MCU movie alongside Chadwick Boseman - who died from colon cancer at the age of 43 back in 2020 - in the title role and explained that she found it "unfathomable" that director Ryan Coogler could find a way to bring a sequel to the screen without her former co-star. She said: "I didn’t have doubts – I had dread.