Real-life badass Danai Gurira hired an Olympic swimming coach to train for her role as fictional badass Okoye in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
that she hired an Olympic swimming coach to help her embody her role as Okoye in the new film, even though she used to swim competitively as a child., there’s a little bit of water in this movie,” she said. “So when I heard that, I hadn’t read the script, but I went and found this Olympic-trainer swimming coach. I was like, ‘Teach me everything.’”“It wasn’t really necessary to go in like that, but I went all in,” she continued.
I saw the stat that a Black child is five times more likely to drown than a white child, and that got me. I just got more interested in trying to bring awareness to it, and I’ll be looking into that more. There’s a lot that goes into the fact that we as Black folks don’t often get that skill, but it is a very important skill and people lose their lives around it when they don’t have to. I tried to help a couple of my friends learn to swim — grown-ass women like me. It’s interesting.
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