Black Panther filmmaker Ryan Coogler received a standing ovation as he wrapped an emotional edition of BAFTA’s David Lean lecture series in London Monday. The annual lecture is the centerpiece of B…
“I feel like I’m standing in a place that maybe I shouldn’t be. It’s a feeling I’ve grown accustomed to over my life and career. Moments like these, they never change,” he said.
“I didn’t know if I would be a Black filmmaker that made independent cinema or a Black filmmaker that made major motion pictures. But I knew that I was joining a very important group,” he said. “I felt it when I shook John [Singleton’s] hand for the first time, and I felt it when I shook Spike [Lee’s] hand for the first time.”
Singleton died in 2019 after suffering a stroke, but Coogler told the audience that the filmmaker had become one of his personal mentors, and he shared a seminal text he received from Singleton about the importance of supporting fellow Black filmmakers when his second film, and it started with a picture of the tickets he bought for him and his daughter. He sent the tickets to me and said, ‘this is a ritual. We always do this for each other,” Coogler said of Singleton’s text.
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