Chadwick Boseman - Why Everyone Is a Hero in "Black Panther" - Extended Interview

please welcome Chadwick Boseman [Applause] I didn't expect you to do that what do you mean you didn't expect the rest of your life you will be greeted like this you are you are not line what kind of my friend congratulations I've been a fan of yours for such a long time and I've watched you go from film to film and you play some of the most iconic people on screen but there is something truly different and magical about this character could you feel it when you were making Black Panther I think I think the whole cast we knew how special this project could be we knew what the comic book was we knew what the you know what the what the whole idea of this technologically advanced nation in in Africa that you know essentially they're the oldest people on the planet right that's that that idea that that that um it was a revolutionary one that we knew we could throw a lot of our passion into and we didn't know how people would receive it we didn't know you know that it would be this sort of impact that right we knew that would be important to see a black superhero we knew that would be interesting we knew that you know once people saw what these women were that that would impact some people but you don't know if that's gonna be a niche group of people that love it and you also don't know if it's going to you know if the studio is going to put everything they can into it right I have to give Marvel credit and Disney credit for you know throwing the book at it it's what they live that's really what they did I mean like the marketing worldwide the way the story was presented everyone on the cost because what made this story special was I don't know if it was just me it feels like Black Panthers powers come not just from his suit but from his people from his tradition from his tradition from his tribe from the from the women around him it was really special to see a situation where it didn't feel like anyone was a sidekick it felt like everyone was part of a team was that something that that you were focusing on in the way you treated your stars have you ever seen absolutely I felt like in order for him to be a good king you know one of the good signs of someone who was wise is that is that they disseminate responsibilities right and so I felt that you know his father would have taught him you know use everybody skills don't try to do everything right um you came you can't be everywhere one time so it was important for the knight to be as strong as she is it was important for Lupita to be as strong as she is and I felt like you know what we had as far as you know there's no real I don't think there's a villain in this movie I think you have two sides of the same coin right the kill kill monger story that's and there's a childhood story you know we treated it that way Mike when I kept ourselves separate and came together a certain point so that we could create this sort of tension all same but on in the scenes but it was it was it was a collaboration I think for everybody that's an interesting idea that there was no there was no villain it was two sides of a story I mean more than ever in America right now people feel like oh there's a villain there's no villain this it feels like every story needs to have that but that's what made Black Panther so complicated I won't give any spoilers away but it felt like a story where you truly did not know how you felt you just had to work on how you felt about what the how the people were trying to do what they were trying to do well it doesn't let anybody off the hook right you don't absolutely like and I think that's that's the key thing is that I think when you do everybody is the hero in their own story you know right like you should be the hero on your own story you should be you should see yourself conquering you know the dramatic action of whatever you're trying to do so when you get to crisis you know you know how to deal with it you might be able to do that and there are people that come in and help you with your story but you have to be the person who who deals with the conflicts that are in place nobody else can there's no deus ex machina right it's gonna come in and save it for you even if you pray to God God expects you to do some things so I think you have to be that hero I know that I felt that and I connected with so many of the characters in different ways not just because of who they were and what they were doing but also because of home like I was really impressed by the fact that everyone in the movie had an African accent what was cool is it was African accents from different places you know like my baku had had a nigerian inspired accent you know and and the key I had an accent that had flare like a bit of a bit of Kenya in there and and touch Allah came out and there was a moment in the movie while I was watching you and I was like why does this sound like a little bit of a young Nelson Mandela there was like a what was there like a casa the inspiration behind the absolutely absolutely my my you know that was that was the the the sound of my dialect coach also I wanted that sound specifically because I felt like the clicks are an indication like it's believed that the languages that have the clicks among the oldest right so I felt I felt like that was a great sound for this for this particular character and you know he the point that you just brought up about each body each person having a different sound we felt like we were taking the continent and sort of closing it in like compressing it and saying everything that we love about the continent came from here right right so you can pull from every place cuz there's a dispersion from this from Wakanda so yes she could have a Kenyan hint in her accent it also allows each actor to bring things that are close to them to the story right so as opposed to like some people might be like well you can't just have this generalized Africa where people are are picking from anything they want but if but if it becomes from an organic truth and they're going to organic DNA which is what we did then and everybody's on the same page then it becomes something that is real what was it was a part of you worried though that everyone having African accents would be something that like the studio or even movie goers wouldn't gravitate towards I I wasn't worried somebody was born somebody was worried I wasn't I wasn't worried because I had seen you know I'd seen Jean Connie right doing Shakespeare you know under saying I'd seen people plays my father in the film I had seen you know Africans Doolittle Macbeth right like that before so I knew already knew it worked I had seen that from my college years right that this could work you know other people hadn't seen that so I knew that the that an African accent could carry all of that passion in the English language you know just as well as a British woman could if not better and so you know for me there was a when I heard things like people can't listen to that you know for an entire film if you know they were just talking about me doing it I was like no we're gonna go to Wakanda one day in my mind I was like if I have a British exit right now what's what's gonna happen the nation is being wouldn't wait a sec I'm just picturing that was he more I'm just picturing that cutout of the movie right now it's like black panther coming back and if I was like my king you have a return it's like well hello that good to be back when we were debating it I had that nightmare the movie connected with so many people on so many levels and one thing I I really enjoyed was I got to watch the film in New York City I got to watch the film with many different people from different walks of life I watched how it touched many african-americans what I also loved though was how that authenticity translated back to Africa back to South Africa I saw people back home who embraced the movie just as much as people did here which is not an easy thing to do because Africans get portrayed in a certain way in film and a lot of the time I won't like we watch movies and we like who are they trying to imitate right now right what part of Africa is this right but but people loved it back home people loved it in the motherland was that something that was important for you did that did that touch you it I can't even put into words what that feels like because because you know on both sides as a as an African American and you know seeing people from the continent I see I've seen the divide for my entire life right you know I've you know grew up and I remember hearing the term African booty scratcher is an insult right I remember right and then I Indian I went through my phase of trying to find Africa and not knowing well which place in my front whoa and I've seen Africans who viewed us in a particular way were you're not connected right you don't know where you're from and at the same time love parts of our culture so there's like this weird there's been this weird dynamic uh-huh you know I don't know the oral tradition because I didn't grow up with it you know for from you know if I if I knew exactly where I came from growing up I would have had an oral tradition from that place right I never had that so this movie in a certain way creates a story that we all share and it's the first time that's I feel like that's ever happened where I feel like where where it's like okay that's our story that's our story too I think part of that is because you have these two characters who have this collision right and they have to go through each other and find out about each other so even in fighting there is a there's a sense of kinship among them and I think it's portrayed on screen where people accept it it's portrayed it's welcomed it's electric and it's gonna make billion dollars [Applause] thank you for the fingers on I appreciate oh my god Black Panther is in theaters now chat with Bozeman everyone [Music] [Music] 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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 04 2018