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When Black Panther was released in 2018, it united Black people across the diaspora with a shared pride in seeing a superhero film starring African and African American actors. This time, the cast and crew of the film’s sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, will once again bring audiences together around a shared theme: grief.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find viewers who disagree that the 2022 follow-up makes good on that intention, particularly regarding honoring the original Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman. For Coogler and the cast, being able to come together on set and remember his impact, not only on this franchise but as a human being, was healing.
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00:00Grief can sometimes be an isolating thing, where it's like, man, this is only happening
00:04to me.
00:05You know?
00:06But the truth is, it was very clear to us that what we were going through was kind of
00:12happening to everybody.
00:13I lose a friend and collaborator who means a lot to me.
00:17Other people have been through something like that, you know what I'm saying?
00:20But also, on a direct level, man, Chad affected everybody.
00:25More so on a societal level, we were being affected by COVID, while, you know, obviously
00:30we still are.
00:31But at that time, I was like pre-vaccine and, you know, scared to give someone a hug.
00:38That was the zone that we lost him in, and we were still in that zone making the movie,
00:43so it made sense to lean into that emotion.
00:46I thought that if we leaned in, the film would probably be more relatable.
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