The actress drew inspiration from Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward Boseman. “When Nyong’o saw Simone, 32, at Chadwick’s burial service, she said that she was inspired by her. She had given up her life as a spy and relocated to Haiti.  Being inspired. Lupita Nyong’o plays T’Challa, the character played by the late Chadwick Boseman, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but