Ruth Carter On Designing A Black Panther Suit For Letitia Wright & Working With Director Ryan Coogler | Oscars 2023 - video Dailymotion

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Ruth Carter talked to the Hollywood Reporter about her work on ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’  and working with director Ryan Coogler on the Oscars 2023 red carpet.

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00:00You look so beautiful, tell me what inspired your look tonight.

00:06The colors of Wakanda, the bright, saturated colors.

00:12I also wanted to represent the film in a forward-thinking way, Afrofuture.

00:19So Julia Korner 3D printed my earrings, I just wanted to be in Wakanda.

00:28And I feel like the color helps that.

00:32What would it mean to win another Oscar for this movie?

00:35It would mean that I'm doing something right.

00:39It would mean that my colleagues and the Academy are recognizing that a superhero is a black

00:48woman.

00:50And that means the world to me.

00:53In designing that suit, what was your inspiration and how did you form it?

00:58Well, the suit, it's actually part of Marvel's arsenal.

01:02So it comes out of the visual development department, Ryan Marderding, Joss Nizzi, great artists.

01:10And also through the mind of Ryan Coogler, there's a story in that suit.

01:15And that story is vibranium, it's gold from Killmonger.

01:20It represents the duality that Shuri's facing of losing her brother and then losing her mother.

01:28Is she angry?

01:29You know, there's a lot of questions that she's trying to grapple with.

01:34And that was the inspiration for that suit.

01:38It has a woman's touch.

01:40There's a lot of adornments on that, on that costume.

01:43It has a high neck, which is great for Shuri's body type and it suits, it suits her.

01:50She actually is a costume designer.

01:52She designed T'Challa's suit.

01:54You know, I feel like she's a costume designer and she designed her own suit.

01:57So yeah, the story is such that she is grappling with both good and evil.

02:06What's your favorite part about collaborating with Ryan?

02:09That Ryan is so generous.

02:13You're not afraid to tell him what your challenges are.

02:19And he will say, let me help you, what are you trying to figure out?

02:24And when you tell him he has an answer, that's what we want from our directors.

02:29We want them to help us get to the answers and that's what I love the most about collaborating

02:35with him.

02:36He's very generous.

02:37And of course, Rihanna is performing the song from the movie tonight.

02:41How excited are you for that performance?

02:44That song, it just gets bigger and bigger in your heart.

02:49And every time I hear it, I keep picturing like a chorus of like children singing it.

02:55You know, I can just see it having another life.

02:59And every time the artist sings that song, especially Rihanna, it lifts me up.

03:05And I think it's a wonderful lullaby that will be sung by children and adults.

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