{"id":16660,"date":"2022-11-12T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/wakanda-forever-will-honour-chadwick-bosemans-legacy"},"modified":"2022-11-12T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T16:09:21","slug":"wakanda-forever-will-honour-chadwick-bosemans-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/wakanda-forever-will-honour-chadwick-bosemans-legacy","title":{"rendered":"Wakanda Forever ‘will honour Chadwick Boseman’s legacy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther co-stars say Wakanda Forever is dedicated to honouring his legacy.<\/b><\/p>\n

The US actor, who played heroic crime-fighting king T’Challa, died of cancer in 2020, aged 43.<\/p>\n

Co-stars Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o say they are still processing his untimely death.<\/p>\n

But Danai, who plays Okoye, says it is the cast’s “hope and prayer” that the sequel’s attempt to honour him “is felt by the audience”.<\/p>\n

“Some scenes you want to break down and cry,” adds Letitia.<\/p>\n

“[Grief] is still there like that’s one of the things about this project that’s been one of the hardest, you can’t run from it.<\/p>\n

“We walked through it together and we just made sure that every line, every scene was just dedicated to him.<\/p>\n

“I knew he was listening.”<\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio 1Xtra, the trio also discussed returning to set after Covid lockdowns, filming underwater and inspiring change in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Wakanda Forever, released on Friday, returns to the fictional African country with incredibly advanced technology.<\/p>\n

Letitia plays Shuri, the Black Panther’s sister, Danai stars as Okoye, head of the Wakandan armed forces and Oscar-winner Lupita becomes Nakia, an undercover spy in service to Wakanda.<\/p>\n

Listen: 1Xtra’s Ace chats to Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o<\/p>\n

“We have a predominantly female-led film,” says Lupita.<\/p>\n

“We already did something like that with the first Black Panther but now in the absence of T’Challa, the women have taken the fore in a remarkable way.<\/p>\n

“That this film is as big as it is with that feminist agenda is so cool.”<\/p>\n

And on the subject of women leading the way, Rihanna released her first solo single in six years, Lift Me Up, to accompany the film.<\/p>\n

The sequel comes four years after Black Panther was released to rave reviews and big box office receipts.<\/p>\n

And for the actors it was their first return to filming since the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

“It felt more intense maybe because we were coming out of a lockdown situation it was like one of the first things I did outside of being in my house for a year,” says Danai.<\/p>\n

For the first read-through, the actors had to 6ft (1.8m) apart due to restrictions, which Lupita admits was a bit “awkward”.<\/p>\n

But she remembers feeling “as we read, it just started to feel more possible”.<\/p>\n

In another first, the film features underwater sequences.<\/p>\n

“Before this film, Ryan [Coogler, director] sent me a cryptic text message saying, ‘on the scale of one to 10 how well can you swim?'” says Lupita.<\/p>\n

“I said four, because I swim like a panicked puppy.”<\/p>\n

She had to take swimming lessons, followed by extreme performance training.<\/p>\n

It involved underwater tasks – like walking along the bottom of a pool – to increase her breath capacity.<\/p>\n

“My thinking was they’re going to be asking me not just to swim but to act as I’m swimming,” she says.<\/p>\n

The trio are tight-lipped about the possibility of a third film but said they had “so much fun” on set.<\/p>\n

“In this film, I felt really loved and I really have a family [here],” says Danai.<\/p>\n

“No matter how many times you come back to do this, or where life takes us, I definitely have a family.”<\/p>\n

Follow Newsbeat on Twitter and YouTube.<\/p>\n

Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays – or listen back here.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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