![]() ![]() My eyes are tearing up right now! And for a mega production to devote its brand logo to this dead Black actor, its star - it’s just really moving. But instead, the Marvel logo is entirely Chadwick Boseman. And usually, what’s in that logo is all the characters in the Marvel universe - the Hulk, Black Widow, Captain America, Iron Man. j worthamĪnd then, like, the movie properly starts, formally, with the unspooling of the Marvel logo that we all have seen 1,000 times. You’re watching Angela Bassett and Letitia Wright and Danai Gurira weep. You’re also watching actors who’ve lost their co-star. Okoye - like, her face is swollen with grief as she carries his coffin. You’re watching the head of the Dora Milaje, which is Wakanda’s security defense force. You’re watching his sister, Shuri, mourn. I mean, I heard sniffles.Īnd this funeral also presents this really fascinating meta moment, where you’re watching T’Challa’s mother, Queen Ramonda, weep. It gives us this beautiful ritual of grief, and everybody’s in white, and the music is - it’s moving. And he was the King of Wakanda, right? They have to have a service worthy of the King. Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman. I was less fascinated by that question, because I mean, I mourn Chadwick Boseman, right? But I just assumed that what was going to happen was, this world is big enough to find a plot that both accommodates the death of T’Challa, a.k.a. ![]() Ryan Coogler was like, I am not going to recast “Black Panther.” So it was this big question mark. ![]() wesley morrisĪ lot of people were grieving. wesley morrisīut a big question on my mind - and I think on the mind of many people - was how the movie is going to deal with the passing of Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020 after a long battle with cancer that many people did not know about. We went to see the sequel to “Black Panther,” “Wakanda Forever,” directed by Ryan Coogler - a movie that has been highly anticipated. You mean, super-powered individuals at The New York Times. We’re two culture writers at The New York Times. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. The hosts of “Still Processing” are ready for it. Transcript Plastic Off the Sofa “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” doesn’t shy away from big subjects like grief and colonization. ![]()
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