For Michaela Coel, her character's queerness sold her on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
about Aneka, a captain of the Dora Milaje who in the comics falls in love with a fellow warrior. “I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana.”
“People say, ‘Oh, it’s fine, it’s just politics.’ But I don’t think it is just politics when it affects how people get to live their daily lives,” Coel continues. “That’s why it felt important for me to step in and do that role because I know just by my being Ghanaian, Ghanaians will come.”
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