Chadwick Boseman on why BlackPanther needed a black director
At the time, neither of them knew that the Marvel movie — the first studio superhero film with a Black director and mostly Black cast — would shatter box office records, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide.
Coogler talked about meeting Boseman to discuss the evolution of T’Challa, the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda, after having seen his performances as Jackie Robinson in “42” and James Brown in “Get on Up.” Coogler also spoke about why he traveled to Africa before shooting the film, the first time he’d visited the continent.
It may be true for some Europeans or Asians as well. But it’s not, in most cases, this catastrophic event that cuts off your ability to know certain information. Nor do you have to look at cargo records or bill of sale records or property to figure out who your family is. That’s what [we] have to do.
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