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Angela Bassett says production onBlack Panther: Wakanda Foreveris ever-changing.
While speaking withEntertainment TonightWednesday, the 62-year-old actress opened up about what’s been going on the behind the scenes of the sequel to 2018’sBlack Panther, whichbegan filminglate last month.
“I don’t know what it’s going to look like at all,” Bassett, who stars as Queen Ramonda, said of her return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe inBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever. “There have been about five incarnations of the script and I hear another one’s coming.”
“Of course, with our dear king [Chadwick Boseman] going on to glory, a lot of things had to be shifted and changed,” she continued. “So thankfully, [director] Ryan [Coogler] and [writer] Joe Robert Cole, they’re just such masterful storytellers that they’ve found a way into this world and hopefully it will be satisfying, I think, for the fans and it will be honorable of our Chad.”
“We love our king,” Bassett added of the actor, whodiedlast year at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Black Panther(2018).Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios
Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feigeconfirmed toVarietyon June 29 that production on theBlack Panthersequel was officially underway, with filming beginning that very day at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta.
Feige, 48, told the outlet that starting production on the film is “clearly very emotional without” Boseman.
“But everyone is also very excited to bring the world of Wakanda back to the public and back to the fans,” he said. “We’re going to do it in a way that would make Chad proud.”
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Marvel Studios revealed the name of thesequel (along with several other new movies) with aclip celebrating the studio’s filmsin May.
During Disney’s Investor Day in December, Feige announced that in Boseman’s honor, his titular role asthe Wakandan superhero would not be recast. Instead, the latest installment “will explore the world of Wakanda & the richcharacters introduced in the first film,” Disney said in a statement.
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“[He was] truly, truly one of themost incredible individualsthat I have ever had the opportunity to meet and work with,” she said. “He was diligent, professional, kind — he was there.”
Bassett added that he had “a ready laugh” and worked “diligently” on his character of T’Challa, who she described as “his ministry.”
“If we could just take a page out of his book, all of us would be even greater,” she said at the time.
Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverwill hit theaters on July 8, 2022.
source: people.com
