In bringing the world of Wakanda to the big screen for the first time, writer/director Ryan Coogler united a remarkable ensemble of incredibly talented actors.
They not only had some great ideas, but even some interesting reasons for their choices, as you’ll discover below and across the next few pages!
Sure, he may have inherited Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue, Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, and John Kani as T’Chaka, but the rest of the Black Panther cast is made up of name after jaw-dropping name.
I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with many members of the Black Panther cast last week during the film’s Los Angeles press day, and during those individual and paired conversations I took the opportunity to ask them about actors they would want to see join the franchise someday.