The Best Supporting Actress nominee takes The Awardist through her powerful death scene.

It was an absolute surprise.

No heads-up, no warning."

Angela Bassett and Letitia Wright in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

Angela Bassett and Letitia Wright in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.Marvel Studios

“I’m getting CPR, and I don’t make it.

Oh, oh, I was distraught,” she says.

“Maybe that was the point.”

Filming the scene, however, was a different experience.

“I think I had maybe made peace with it, you know?

“So it becomes like any other day you want to do good work that day.

And after you finish, it’s not the last day.

You still have more to do.

So that helps soothe you a little bit.”

Someone who refuses to be soothed inWakanda Foreveris Queen Ramonda’s daughter, Shuri (Letitia Wright).