In conversation with SAPO Mag and various media around the world, Danai Gurira (Okoye), Florence Kasumba (Ayo) and Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross) confessed that mourning and returning to history was a difficult process for everyone. “It was a very intense process for us and it was a grieving journey. We have no idea the impact, what resonance it will have. We were taking this journey, and it is never a comfortable or even pleasant journey to take, but it must be taken. But there was also a lot of hope imbued in the film”, begins by underlines Danai Gurira, actress who plays Okoye in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. For the actress, shooting the sequel was a “very different experience”. “We were dealing with the loss of our brother, our main man, our leader, the great Chadwick Bosemann. And it was completely different for us as a cast, as well as a new narrative. The characters are also grieving. , are experiencing the loss”, he stresses. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” data-title=”Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. From pain was born a tribute to Chadwick Boseman: “He was like a king, a great leader” – SAPO Mag”>
“Chadwick Boseman was like a king, like a great leader. It was having a great example, it was having a colleague with whom we are extremely safe, with whom we can share our thoughts”, adds Florence Kasumba. “I have so many good memories, which makes it easier to understand and accept the fact that he is no longer here”, confesses the actress. Martin Freeman, who plays Everett K. Ross, confesses that he thought the second film going forward: “When I heard about Chadwick Bosemann’s death, I thought, ‘Oh, of course we’re not going to make another film’. But when it became clear that we were going to go ahead with a new film, I wasn’t nervous about the film. immediate was that there would be no other… But since we were moving forward, I trusted Ryan [Coogler], and Ryan convinced me to do it. I think he convinced everyone to go through with it.” The protagonist of the 2018 “Black Panther” movie, Chadwick Boseman, died unexpectedly of cancer in 2020, when director Ryan Coogler had already been working on a sequel with him for several months. The team changed direction and decided not to choose another actor to replace him as T’Challa, so part of the story of “Forever Wakanda” focuses on mourning the loss of the King of Wakanda, and how the people around him back deal with the pain.WATCH THE TRAILER:“I wasn’t surprised that Ryan figured out how to listen to his heart and soul to honor Chadwick,” adds Danai Gurira. “What Chadwick Boseman gave to the film was all his heart”, concludes the British actor.In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba), fight to protect their nation from intervention by world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. , the heroes unite with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) to discover a new path to the kingdom of Wakanda. BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER” data-title=”BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. From pain was born a tribute to Chadwick Boseman: “He was like a king, a great leader” – SAPO Mag”>
For Danai Gurira, the story of Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía), the king of a hidden underwater nation, came as a surprise – the idea of loss permeates the narrative not only with the inhabitants of Wakanda, but also with the film’s antagonist and the her people, the Talocan.”I didn’t know who Namor was. But I learned that she was one of the first characters in Marvel Comics. It was fascinating to see this world and I love the whole idea around water because I love water, I love swimming”, says the actress, “I thought it was a really surprising new world to explore,” she adds.In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, Everett K. Ross, Martin Freeman’s character, will have to live with a new /new colleague but for now the cast has to keep it a secret. “I can only talk about it without making the name. We’re not supposed to talk about her – I found out that, apparently, we can’t talk”, says the actor, between laughs, when the name of the “person” is mentioned. “But I can say that it is a great comedy person (…) When I heard that this person was going to be in the cast… I was really excited because I think he’s a fantastic person and so much fun in real life. I’ve been a fan for a long time and it was just as I expected” , says Martin Freeman, noting that everyone will find out who he is from this Thursday, November 10th. Always” has some of the most intense action scenes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of them, on top of a bridge, took four months to film. Florence Kasumba” data-title=”Florence Kasumba – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. From pain was born a tribute to Chadwick Boseman: “He was like a king, a great leader” – SAPO Mag”>
It’s also a female-led film, with Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia), Angela Bassett (Queen Ramonda), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Michaela Coel (Aneka) and Dominique Thorne (Riri Williams, new character) at the forefront, as well as Florence Kasumba, who defends the importance of giving women protagonists and not just in front of the camera.”There is always work that has to be done if we want to go further. It’s almost like the philosophy of living in Wakanda, where there are limits. If you want to achieve greatness, I have to keep working. In this case, you have to hire women, but for all positions”, stresses the actress in conversation with journalists. “Change happens when we don’t just talk about things, But we see things happening. So when people go to the movies, they’re going to see all these strong female characters because some people made the decision to trust A, B and Z to do this job.” “When people start, other people follow. I don’t know if that happens fast enough. I just have a lot of hope and I see the changes”, he concludes. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” opens in theaters in Portugal on November 10 and United States the next day.