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Director Ryan Coogler said he wanted to go to a place audiences haven't seen before and include rituals some moviegoers aren't familiar with in his latest film. He also touches on what he's most proud of.
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00:00And then also, you know, they bring in the indigenous element, you know, into the film now.
00:04There's so many layers there, and even the relation with African people.
00:07Can you kind of speak to that a little bit in tackling that?
00:10Our goal is with the film in terms of what we wanted to explore.
00:12We wanted to deepen our insight of Wakanda and the Wakandans.
00:17We wanted to go to locations and neighborhoods within a country that we hadn't seen before.
00:21See customs and rituals that we hadn't seen before.
00:26See different dynamics that we hadn't seen before.
00:28All that would be in conversation with the first film.
00:31We also wanted to expand it, you know, and go to a new place.
00:36You know, that we could juxtapose with Wakanda.
00:40A place that had some similarities, but also some very key differences.
00:45You know, and the film enabled us to do that.
00:50Have you already signed on for a third?
00:52No, I haven't signed on for anything.
00:53Okay.
00:54What are you most proud of when you look at both bodies of work now being completed?
00:59Both bodies of work, Black Panther 1 and Black Panther 2?
01:01What I'm most proud of?
01:03Yeah.
01:03The opportunity.
01:05Like, I'm proud of, like, I mean, I guess I'm proud of what my collaborators did.
01:10Yeah.
01:10You know, but I'm thankful for that.
01:13I feel, like, I feel gratitude for the opportunity to be trusted with this.
01:22Yeah.
01:22You know, there's a lot of trust that came my way personally, you know, our way with the audience.
01:30Yeah.
01:31Our way with the studio, you know.
01:32Absolutely.
01:33And I'm very grateful for that.
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