Lupita Nyong'o teared up paying tribute to her "Black Panther" co-star Chadwick Boseman ... "There's no place to put it. I don't run away from the tears or the grief. You just live with it." ...

He's working, man. He don't turn it off till we wrap.'" The sequel to that film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, wasn't released until 2022, after Boseman's death from complications of colon cancer.

Boseman, who died in 2020 at age 43, was completely committed to his main character of T'Challa in the Marvel movie about the advanced kingdom of Wakanda, Coogler recalled on a recent episode of Power ...