1 00:00:05,505 --> 00:00:07,507 {\an8}RYAN COOGLER: We brought something for you guys today. 2 00:00:11,594 --> 00:00:13,722 You guys are gonna be the first audience to see... 3 00:00:14,764 --> 00:00:17,100 the trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. 4 00:00:19,644 --> 00:00:21,312 WOMAN: Oh, my God. MAN: Wow! 5 00:00:23,690 --> 00:00:25,817 WOMAN: No woman, no cry 6 00:00:29,404 --> 00:00:31,823 No woman, no cry... 7 00:01:04,606 --> 00:01:06,649 {\an8}Hey. What are you doing? 8 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:09,778 {\an8}-MAN: Checking you out. -No, no, there's no... 9 00:01:10,653 --> 00:01:12,113 {\an8}There's no behind the scenes. 10 00:01:13,990 --> 00:01:16,201 There are no, you're spoiling everything. 11 00:01:22,874 --> 00:01:24,667 {\an8}COOGLER: Chad is no longer with us, physically. 12 00:01:26,461 --> 00:01:31,174 {\an8}COOGLER: But his spirit, his passion, his genius, his pride and his culture, 13 00:01:32,133 --> 00:01:35,762 and the impact that he made on this industry 14 00:01:35,845 --> 00:01:37,055 will be felt forever. 15 00:01:41,351 --> 00:01:42,852 Standing here with y'all, 16 00:01:43,353 --> 00:01:45,605 I promise you I can feel his hand on me right now. 17 00:02:17,887 --> 00:02:18,888 MAN: Rolling. 18 00:02:20,849 --> 00:02:21,850 {\an8}All right. 19 00:02:22,934 --> 00:02:28,064 {\an8}There is a lot of grief and pain in this film, 20 00:02:28,148 --> 00:02:32,152 that resonates in a way that sadly is connected to a reality. 21 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:36,573 Chad, of course, the understanding of what it meant 22 00:02:36,739 --> 00:02:39,242 to really show a world like this, it came from him, 23 00:02:39,450 --> 00:02:43,163 like, him and John Kani, 24 00:02:43,371 --> 00:02:46,374 who played his father, who is an iconic South African actor. 25 00:02:47,208 --> 00:02:50,336 You know, they came together during Captain America and said, 26 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:54,299 you know, let's put Xhosa in this film right here and now. 27 00:02:54,382 --> 00:02:55,842 They set that precedent 28 00:02:55,925 --> 00:03:00,138 that said, you know, we're gonna use this very beautiful 29 00:03:00,221 --> 00:03:04,809 and specific African language, and it will become the Wakandan language. 30 00:03:15,028 --> 00:03:17,405 That set the precedent for the world of Wakanda. 31 00:03:26,706 --> 00:03:28,666 LUPITA NYONG'O: The first Black Panther film 32 00:03:29,417 --> 00:03:34,005 {\an8}so much of Africa was being celebrated, rather than exploited, you know? 33 00:03:34,088 --> 00:03:36,216 {\an8}Which is something we're more used to. 34 00:03:36,299 --> 00:03:39,135 And it was giving credit where credit was due 35 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:41,638 and people were so excited to see themselves. 36 00:03:41,721 --> 00:03:45,516 And there was an embracing of culture, of ethnicity. 37 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:50,104 There was just like, a reminder that we all come from very rich histories. 38 00:03:50,897 --> 00:03:52,315 -My King! -Stop it, stop it. 39 00:03:56,152 --> 00:03:58,363 WINSTON DUKE: While shooting the first Black Panther movie, 40 00:03:58,446 --> 00:04:03,534 we became more than just actors and collaborators. 41 00:04:03,618 --> 00:04:06,537 {\an8}We really became friends along the way. 42 00:04:06,621 --> 00:04:07,872 The entire cast. 43 00:04:07,956 --> 00:04:10,750 We became very, very close 44 00:04:10,833 --> 00:04:14,879 and we all suffered an incredible loss when we lost Chadwick. 45 00:04:16,714 --> 00:04:18,383 -You have to keep working. -My goodness. 46 00:04:18,466 --> 00:04:20,468 {\an8}-Bad news, you have to keep working. -Goodness. 47 00:04:21,886 --> 00:04:22,887 {\an8}Oh, man. 48 00:04:22,971 --> 00:04:26,557 {\an8}I mean, you don't get past a loss like this. 49 00:04:29,394 --> 00:04:31,980 It's something you learn how to live with, I think. 50 00:04:33,773 --> 00:04:38,528 For me, it was about realizing how blessed and lucky I was 51 00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:41,364 to have had the opportunity to work with Chadwick before he passed. 52 00:04:41,447 --> 00:04:42,740 He wrote a statement saying 53 00:04:42,824 --> 00:04:44,951 playing T'Challa was the honor of his life. 54 00:04:48,413 --> 00:04:51,374 I was moved by knowing our time together meant something to him 55 00:04:51,457 --> 00:04:52,750 because it definitely meant something to me. 56 00:04:52,834 --> 00:04:55,003 And it was kinda, I was like, "We gotta keep going. 57 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:59,173 "We gotta find a way to do it with the people who he cared so much about." 58 00:05:00,258 --> 00:05:01,634 A sense like... 59 00:05:01,718 --> 00:05:04,304 COOGLER: Yeah, I think, I think how I see this is... 60 00:05:04,387 --> 00:05:05,388 Yeah. 61 00:05:05,471 --> 00:05:08,349 You don't use combustion technology in practice. 62 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:09,559 -Yeah. -You understand it. 63 00:05:09,642 --> 00:05:11,436 It was an interesting exercise for me 64 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:13,855 'cause it wasn't my first time making a sequel. 65 00:05:13,938 --> 00:05:16,399 Because I had done that with Creed before, 66 00:05:16,482 --> 00:05:19,360 which was like a spiritual sequel and like a proper sequel 67 00:05:19,444 --> 00:05:21,237 to the Rocky films and... 68 00:05:21,988 --> 00:05:25,283 But I never like, made a sequel to something that I made. 69 00:05:26,409 --> 00:05:28,745 I mean, if it stays on their head, 70 00:05:29,245 --> 00:05:31,414 just one rotation, I think, will be enough. 71 00:05:31,497 --> 00:05:33,541 Yeah, it keeps them in... 72 00:05:33,624 --> 00:05:36,044 -It focuses, just not that fast. -WOMAN: Yeah. 73 00:05:36,127 --> 00:05:38,129 Like, half that speed, I guess. 74 00:05:39,005 --> 00:05:41,466 One of the questions we would ask ourselves 75 00:05:41,549 --> 00:05:43,676 when we were in the early Blue Skies phase, 76 00:05:45,136 --> 00:05:47,555 what is a Black Panther movie? Like, what is... 77 00:05:48,056 --> 00:05:49,974 Like, we know what Black Panther is, 78 00:05:50,058 --> 00:05:51,726 but what makes it a Black Panther movie? 79 00:05:51,809 --> 00:05:54,062 If we're to do another, would it fit into the world? 80 00:05:54,145 --> 00:05:55,688 How would audiences recognize it? 81 00:05:56,230 --> 00:05:58,274 We mourn the loss of our king. 82 00:05:59,609 --> 00:06:04,072 But do not think for a second that Wakanda has lost her ability... 83 00:06:04,155 --> 00:06:06,657 to protect our resources. 84 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:07,825 COOGLER: Cut. Nice work. 85 00:06:07,909 --> 00:06:10,286 MAN: Cutting. COOGLER: Hey, guys, stop real quick. 86 00:06:10,370 --> 00:06:11,371 MAN: Yes, sir. 87 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:15,375 I just wanna say thanks to everybody for a helluva first day. 88 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:16,584 Shot a beautiful scene. 89 00:06:21,631 --> 00:06:23,633 It means a lot to be back at work. 90 00:06:23,716 --> 00:06:25,134 Specially on this one. 91 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:28,805 We gotta honor our good, good friend and collaborator. 92 00:06:28,888 --> 00:06:29,889 Fellow artist. 93 00:06:29,972 --> 00:06:32,934 And it feels like we off to an amazing start. 94 00:06:33,017 --> 00:06:35,103 I wanna say thank you to you guys for today, 95 00:06:35,186 --> 00:06:38,314 thanks in advance for the other 90-some-odd days we got to go. 96 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,112 Just a big thank you, thank you to you guys. 97 00:06:48,199 --> 00:06:50,284 LETITIA WRIGHT: The themes are pretty strong here. 98 00:06:50,368 --> 00:06:51,994 {\an8}You see the themes of family, 99 00:06:52,078 --> 00:06:56,040 {\an8}of protection, of love, of care. 100 00:06:57,083 --> 00:07:00,545 All in one place and I think that's beautiful for us to explore 101 00:07:00,628 --> 00:07:02,046 'cause many are feeling that 102 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:04,632 especially with the years that we've just had. 103 00:07:04,799 --> 00:07:06,008 You know, so many lost. 104 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:10,179 We can use this film to show people like, 105 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:13,141 "Hey, we feel what you're feeling, you know, 106 00:07:13,224 --> 00:07:16,144 "we can connect to that, we can relate." 107 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:19,313 And hopefully that gives people an avenue 108 00:07:19,397 --> 00:07:22,984 to express how they feel and just come to terms with that, 109 00:07:23,067 --> 00:07:25,820 so there's so much that's happening in this movie. 110 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:27,613 It's beautiful, really. 111 00:07:28,239 --> 00:07:31,451 For me, Wakanda is a symbol of home. 112 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:33,828 It's a symbol of belonging. 113 00:07:33,911 --> 00:07:36,497 {\an8}It's a symbol of community. 114 00:07:37,331 --> 00:07:39,208 {\an8}And the identity of community 115 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:43,463 {\an8}and how we hold on to each other to move forward. 116 00:07:43,546 --> 00:07:48,342 And now, in the second film, there's been an expansion 117 00:07:48,801 --> 00:07:51,637 to the world of Wakanda, that's been fun. 118 00:07:51,721 --> 00:07:53,389 For those of us from Wakanda to be like, 119 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:57,018 "This is what this neighborhood looks like, that's dope," you know. 120 00:07:57,351 --> 00:08:01,105 And to learn more about this incredible nation. 121 00:08:03,566 --> 00:08:05,735 HANNAH BEACHLER: These are ginormous sets. 122 00:08:05,818 --> 00:08:09,155 I've been very excited about building everything. 123 00:08:09,238 --> 00:08:10,531 {\an8}We've got Little Rivertown, 124 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,575 {\an8}which wasn't seen last time. 125 00:08:12,658 --> 00:08:15,077 Based on the River Tribe and their color is green. 126 00:08:15,786 --> 00:08:17,371 We wanted to bring that in, 127 00:08:17,455 --> 00:08:20,082 but we also wanted to bring in some other beautiful colors 128 00:08:20,166 --> 00:08:22,877 {\an8}that you would see in textiles. 129 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,089 {\an8}So there's a real big variety in the color usage this time 130 00:08:27,173 --> 00:08:28,508 that I'm super excited about. 131 00:08:29,258 --> 00:08:33,888 You also get to see a little bit more of our capital city, Golden City. 132 00:08:33,971 --> 00:08:36,307 Think of Golden City like Manhattan, 133 00:08:36,390 --> 00:08:41,979 {\an8}where you have the culmination of all the different districts in that one place. 134 00:08:42,063 --> 00:08:44,440 {\an8}So there's a lot of different tribes 135 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:46,859 {\an8}that live in Golden City as it's their capital. 136 00:08:52,281 --> 00:08:56,494 The only tribe you won't find living in Golden City is Jabari. 137 00:08:56,577 --> 00:09:00,289 {\an8}They are separate from the rest of Wakanda, 138 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:04,335 {\an8}so they live in this sort of, southern snowy mountain tops. 139 00:09:08,673 --> 00:09:12,635 {\an8}North Triangle is where Bashenga first put his sword down 140 00:09:12,718 --> 00:09:16,931 {\an8}so it is oldest place in all of Wakanda, including the capital. 141 00:09:17,723 --> 00:09:19,892 {\an8}It is also where Okoye lives. 142 00:09:19,976 --> 00:09:24,605 {\an8}And a lot of the design in North Triangle is based on Danai Gurira, 143 00:09:24,689 --> 00:09:27,400 our fabulous actress as Okoye, 144 00:09:27,483 --> 00:09:30,403 her actual country of Zimbabwe, 145 00:09:30,486 --> 00:09:33,114 and she is from the tribe of the Shona people. 146 00:09:34,907 --> 00:09:37,660 It's where Okoye feels most at home because of the tradition, 147 00:09:37,743 --> 00:09:40,037 because of what it represents. 148 00:09:40,121 --> 00:09:43,040 I was losing my mind by some of these portrayals, 149 00:09:43,124 --> 00:09:45,543 of various cultures, including my own. 150 00:09:45,876 --> 00:09:47,795 I grew up in a country that had recently 151 00:09:47,878 --> 00:09:50,631 {\an8}come out of colonization when I moved there. 152 00:09:50,715 --> 00:09:54,010 {\an8}And so, to understand a nation like Wakanda existing, 153 00:09:54,093 --> 00:09:56,095 I understood how special it was. 154 00:09:56,178 --> 00:09:58,306 A nation that left you with that question, 155 00:09:58,389 --> 00:10:02,393 "Who would we have been as a continent had we never been colonized?" 156 00:10:06,814 --> 00:10:09,483 {\an8}RUTH CARTER: Wakanda itself is such a concept 157 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:13,195 {\an8}that we really wanted to come back to it and groom it. 158 00:10:14,363 --> 00:10:18,367 You see technology that's upgraded, you see new armor. 159 00:10:21,912 --> 00:10:27,126 When we do finally see this costume as Midnight Angel, 160 00:10:27,209 --> 00:10:30,046 it connects directly to the comics. 161 00:10:30,546 --> 00:10:35,051 The Midnight Angels in the comics are tones of blue. 162 00:10:35,551 --> 00:10:40,723 So, the design ideas came directly from the comics 163 00:10:41,015 --> 00:10:45,686 and also connect directly with the actor and the story. 164 00:10:48,981 --> 00:10:53,069 {\an8}Ruth will exhaust every possibility 165 00:10:53,152 --> 00:10:55,321 {\an8}in terms of her research, 166 00:10:55,404 --> 00:11:00,785 {\an8}in terms of connecting with other artists around the world, 167 00:11:00,868 --> 00:11:03,788 to build this world of Wakanda. 168 00:11:05,289 --> 00:11:07,124 To walk into the warehouse, 169 00:11:08,751 --> 00:11:12,254 and just see row after row after row, rack after rack, 170 00:11:12,505 --> 00:11:15,925 table after table of jewelry and fabrics 171 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:20,388 and costumes that she sourced from Africa, from around the world. 172 00:11:20,471 --> 00:11:25,184 It's just absolutely, absolutely amazing. 173 00:11:30,272 --> 00:11:32,108 It has always been our policy... 174 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:35,986 to never trade vibranium under any circumstance. 175 00:11:36,946 --> 00:11:40,366 Not because of the dangerous potential of vibranium... 176 00:11:41,450 --> 00:11:44,954 but because of the dangerous potential of you. 177 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:51,419 I know so much more who I am when I put the costumes on. 178 00:11:51,502 --> 00:11:55,005 The embroidery, the jewelry within the fabric, 179 00:11:55,089 --> 00:11:57,216 the capes, the headdress, 180 00:11:57,299 --> 00:11:58,968 she just took it up a notch 181 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:02,888 and I felt so regal in each and every costume. 182 00:12:03,180 --> 00:12:06,809 Ruth Carter obviously brought tears to everybody's eyes 183 00:12:06,892 --> 00:12:09,979 with like, the beautiful costumes. 184 00:12:10,062 --> 00:12:12,273 I always say like, Ryan's the smartest man alive 185 00:12:12,356 --> 00:12:15,401 being surrounded by a lot of women. 186 00:12:15,484 --> 00:12:17,319 Women department heads 187 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:20,573 and every woman on this show, there's a strength that... 188 00:12:20,656 --> 00:12:24,326 you don't often see, there's a level of excellence. 189 00:12:26,287 --> 00:12:30,082 CARTER: We had to develop a brand new military faction 190 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:33,502 that wasn't seen in the first film, which was the navy. 191 00:12:33,586 --> 00:12:37,923 I wanted to get a color story first and foremost. 192 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:40,760 We know that the River Tribe is green. 193 00:12:40,843 --> 00:12:43,345 So we started with a palette of green. 194 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:46,390 You can combine all different types of green together 195 00:12:46,474 --> 00:12:48,934 and it just seems to work together really nicely. 196 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:52,605 Also, the element of bringing in a tribal reference. 197 00:12:52,938 --> 00:12:57,735 We really wanted to give them a sense of Wakandan royalty as well 198 00:12:57,818 --> 00:13:02,448 so we brought in the gold and the silver as an accent color. 199 00:13:02,531 --> 00:13:06,285 And they have hats like all military factions of Wakanda, 200 00:13:06,368 --> 00:13:09,079 but it's different and unique to them at the same time. 201 00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:24,178 This better not be a part of your ritual. 202 00:13:24,261 --> 00:13:25,262 It isn't. 203 00:13:26,514 --> 00:13:29,141 {\an8}I remember talking about Namor 204 00:13:29,225 --> 00:13:32,561 {\an8}being in Black Panther 2 while writing the first movie. 205 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:40,444 He's always been at the top of mind. 206 00:13:41,237 --> 00:13:44,073 In the comics, the two worlds have a great rivalry. 207 00:13:46,367 --> 00:13:48,536 {\an8}Namor and Atlantis are 208 00:13:48,619 --> 00:13:51,705 some of the oldest characters in Marvel publishing. 209 00:13:52,081 --> 00:13:54,458 Namor was one of the first superheroes, frankly. 210 00:13:56,502 --> 00:13:59,255 But, for us to introduce Namor into the MCU, 211 00:13:59,338 --> 00:14:02,424 there needed to be something that grounded it in a reality 212 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:06,929 that felt like, as tactile as hopefully, the world of Wakanda feels. 213 00:14:07,221 --> 00:14:10,933 And in talking with Ryan, figuring out how to bring this character to life, 214 00:14:11,016 --> 00:14:12,893 one thing we thought was really interesting 215 00:14:12,977 --> 00:14:15,646 was viewing Namor through the lens of Mesoamerican culture. 216 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:22,111 In preparation, we knew the film would be 217 00:14:22,194 --> 00:14:24,822 about Wakandans coming in contact with another place. 218 00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:29,326 Mesoamerica was something I was thinking about a bit. 219 00:14:30,202 --> 00:14:31,829 And upon research, 220 00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:35,499 it became more clear that the people of the Yucatán 221 00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:37,126 made a ton of sense. 222 00:14:41,297 --> 00:14:44,842 We would see images of them drawing themselves with blue paint on, 223 00:14:44,925 --> 00:14:48,512 that was the color that we wanted from Marvel comics that inspired the film 224 00:14:48,596 --> 00:14:51,432 and the more we got into it, we realized it was meant to be. 225 00:14:52,182 --> 00:14:56,020 JOEL HARLOW: This is our background area for doing the Talokanil. 226 00:14:56,103 --> 00:14:59,273 {\an8}These are the gills. They were grown digitally 227 00:14:59,356 --> 00:15:03,027 {\an8}in the computer, sculpted, then grown, we grew the mold. 228 00:15:03,110 --> 00:15:07,573 And then mass produced that mold so we could knock out a lot of 'em. 229 00:15:08,115 --> 00:15:11,994 {\an8}These also have to go in water, so they've to be very durable. 230 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:16,081 Now he's gonna go over to get painted. His whole body will be painted blue. 231 00:15:17,041 --> 00:15:20,252 And then he'll come back to me and I'll finish him up. 232 00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:23,339 He also goes to hair, and costumes. 233 00:15:24,089 --> 00:15:28,886 Each warrior has their own fish or mammal 234 00:15:28,969 --> 00:15:32,306 that's signature to their look. 235 00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:35,893 Attuma has the hammerhead shark. 236 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:39,063 The other warriors, some of their costumes use 237 00:15:39,146 --> 00:15:45,152 what appear to be shells and stones and whale skin, fish skin. 238 00:15:45,569 --> 00:15:50,074 They have their traditional Maya earspools. 239 00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:54,495 The costume really does feel like 240 00:15:54,578 --> 00:15:57,873 this is something that has been tooled over time. 241 00:15:58,540 --> 00:16:02,211 The way we went about making the first movie was with as much respect 242 00:16:02,378 --> 00:16:05,381 for the cultures we were pulling from and for the audience. 243 00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:10,135 So we wanted to do the same thing 244 00:16:10,219 --> 00:16:12,388 for the cultures we were reflecting in this. 245 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:16,100 {\an8}Black Panther 1 for us was a big impact. 246 00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:19,520 Everybody can identify with that story. 247 00:16:19,603 --> 00:16:23,983 We suffer because of the racism, and social cancers. 248 00:16:24,066 --> 00:16:25,442 Black Panther, it was like, 249 00:16:25,526 --> 00:16:28,153 "Oh, my God, there is nothing wrong in us." 250 00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:31,573 There is nothing bad, you know, we are not broken. 251 00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:36,078 So, it was, important and now it's our turn. 252 00:16:38,956 --> 00:16:40,541 COLE: The Mayans are... 253 00:16:40,624 --> 00:16:43,419 There's so much mystery around their civilization. 254 00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,087 COOGLER: Action. 255 00:16:45,212 --> 00:16:48,007 COLE: There's so much fertile terrain there to explore, 256 00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:51,260 their artwork and their advanced agriculture. 257 00:16:51,385 --> 00:16:53,595 All of these things that they accomplished, 258 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:58,058 it just was a perfect palette for us to kind of, delve into. 259 00:17:02,938 --> 00:17:04,857 COOGLER: With Namor, we knew early on, 260 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:07,276 I was like, "We gotta find out how he got this name." 261 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,447 'Cause in the comics, the explanation for his name was simple. 262 00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:14,199 His story goes, they took "Roman" and spelt it backwards. 263 00:17:14,283 --> 00:17:16,493 That's not gonna work with what we're doing here. 264 00:17:17,286 --> 00:17:20,289 I had the thought, somebody said something to him in Spanish 265 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:21,999 and kind of curses him in a way. 266 00:17:22,082 --> 00:17:23,083 That's how he got his name. 267 00:17:25,836 --> 00:17:29,131 MAN: On my mark in three, two, one. 268 00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:31,133 COOGLER: When our collaborators came up with the idea 269 00:17:31,216 --> 00:17:32,968 of sin amor which means no love. 270 00:17:37,681 --> 00:17:40,768 {\an8}His enemies were calling him that. That's how we came up with it. 271 00:17:45,314 --> 00:17:46,815 The child without love. 272 00:17:48,358 --> 00:17:52,321 Namor's costumes reflect the tradition that he honors 273 00:17:52,404 --> 00:17:54,698 and a lot of researching went into that. 274 00:17:55,115 --> 00:18:00,162 His shoulder mantle and headpiece that he wears on the throne 275 00:18:00,245 --> 00:18:04,374 is curated from post-Yucatec Mayan culture. 276 00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:07,795 It's the snake and we used a lot of kelp 277 00:18:07,878 --> 00:18:12,758 and things to make the whole headdress and handwove his cape. 278 00:18:14,259 --> 00:18:17,471 but we kept it pure to what he looked like in the comics. 279 00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:25,229 {\an8}The elements for me, 280 00:18:25,312 --> 00:18:28,440 {\an8}sort of the makeup effects elements, are his ears, 281 00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:31,360 I did a couple of iterations of those, 282 00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:34,696 and then we did a septum piercing on him. 283 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:37,741 He's got earrings that the costume department provided, 284 00:18:37,825 --> 00:18:42,496 but finding his look on our actor was pretty easy actually. 285 00:18:42,579 --> 00:18:46,583 He embodies so much of what I had read Namor to be, 286 00:18:47,167 --> 00:18:50,921 that you don't want to cover him up with fake eyebrows and stuff like that, 287 00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:54,633 I mean, he's got enough eyebrow there that I can give him a slight point, 288 00:18:54,716 --> 00:18:58,804 but he's got great ears for ear prosthetics, 289 00:18:58,887 --> 00:19:00,848 which was, you know, that was a gift. 290 00:19:00,931 --> 00:19:01,932 That was a bonus. 291 00:19:12,776 --> 00:19:14,027 The fish man. 292 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,698 DUKE: What's great about Tenoch is that... 293 00:19:17,781 --> 00:19:20,951 like any great actor, in my opinion, he loves to play. 294 00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:25,747 He enters the scene with an open mind 295 00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:28,041 and ready to play and try things. 296 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:29,126 COOGLER: Action. 297 00:19:31,378 --> 00:19:34,715 He carries a lot of gravitas which the character has, 298 00:19:34,798 --> 00:19:38,844 but he has a lot of softness and potential warmth 299 00:19:38,927 --> 00:19:41,722 which creates a really great dynamic. 300 00:19:41,805 --> 00:19:46,143 For me, to be part of this world, with all the respect, it's a dream. 301 00:19:49,229 --> 00:19:51,148 -Cut. -Clean. Good job. 302 00:19:51,231 --> 00:19:55,569 HUERTA: I never imagined to be here playing this character. 303 00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:03,493 And I have the best allies around me including Mabel. 304 00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:05,245 MABEL CADENA: It was amazing experience, 305 00:20:05,329 --> 00:20:06,955 I have to learn Maya for the movie 306 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:10,209 {\an8}because Namora only speak Maya in the movie. 307 00:20:13,378 --> 00:20:16,673 That was interesting challenge. It's really hard. 308 00:20:28,310 --> 00:20:31,772 CADENA: It's really difficult but because we have a lot of time, 309 00:20:31,855 --> 00:20:34,149 a lot of months with our coach 310 00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:38,278 for pronunciation and for memorize the line. 311 00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:41,365 But the big goal was on set 312 00:20:41,448 --> 00:20:44,910 because sometimes Ryan, he needed change the lines, 313 00:20:44,993 --> 00:20:46,995 and that was a big challenge 314 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:51,458 because you need learn at the moment a new line. 315 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:54,920 It's a really, really achievement for us 316 00:20:55,837 --> 00:20:59,299 in that moment, learn a new word in Maya. 317 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:01,343 {\an8}Líik'ik Talokan! 318 00:21:01,468 --> 00:21:02,928 Líik'ik Talokan! 319 00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:04,846 BEACHLER: When you look at Talokan, 320 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:09,142 we kind of took inspiration from the temples that you see, 321 00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:10,602 we worked with an archaeologist 322 00:21:10,686 --> 00:21:13,522 and he's written books in Mayan and he really helped us along 323 00:21:13,605 --> 00:21:16,900 with how to get to where we needed to be as far as their history. 324 00:21:16,984 --> 00:21:20,153 {\an8}But also, being reminded that... 325 00:21:20,237 --> 00:21:23,240 Namor never actually lived during those times, right? 326 00:21:23,323 --> 00:21:25,784 He never lived in Maya during its glory years 327 00:21:25,867 --> 00:21:27,953 'cause he wasn't born until they went into the water. 328 00:21:28,036 --> 00:21:30,706 So everything that's there, is based on memory. 329 00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:33,250 So that's why things are just a little askewed 330 00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:35,502 because he's remembering what he's been told 331 00:21:35,585 --> 00:21:39,006 and then what he saw before everything went into ruins. 332 00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:42,134 This is what's underneath El Castillo. 333 00:21:42,217 --> 00:21:43,719 -Right. -Which is K'uk'ulkan. 334 00:21:43,802 --> 00:21:45,345 COOGLER: How did y'all model the... 335 00:21:45,429 --> 00:21:46,930 -Stalactites is up, right? -Up. 336 00:21:47,014 --> 00:21:48,598 -Mites is down. -Mites is down. 337 00:21:48,682 --> 00:21:51,059 There's over 700 on both sets. 338 00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:53,687 -Jesus. -Yeah, they hand carved each one 339 00:21:53,770 --> 00:21:56,356 in about three weeks. 340 00:21:57,232 --> 00:21:59,568 -COOGLER: Amazing. -And then, this is our... 341 00:22:01,945 --> 00:22:04,698 sister cenote to the visitors quarters. 342 00:22:05,907 --> 00:22:07,242 Those are hand carved. 343 00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:09,953 -COOGLER: The big... -It took like six weeks 344 00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:12,247 to hand carve those ten-foot steles. 345 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:16,335 And the faces are like, kind of, after Tenoch's face. 346 00:22:16,793 --> 00:22:17,878 -COOGLER: Yeah, wow. -Yeah. 347 00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:19,463 Mmm-hmm. 348 00:22:21,340 --> 00:22:22,382 And then, this. 349 00:22:23,967 --> 00:22:25,177 Everything's from Tulum. 350 00:22:26,386 --> 00:22:27,471 COOGLER: Yeah, this one... 351 00:22:28,221 --> 00:22:29,556 This one's my favorite one. 352 00:22:29,931 --> 00:22:31,016 That's my favorite one, 353 00:22:31,099 --> 00:22:32,934 -the panther and Namor. -Yeah. 354 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:35,312 In the style of Bonampak. 355 00:22:35,854 --> 00:22:38,482 And the people are really brown. 356 00:22:39,441 --> 00:22:40,484 Which is awesome. 357 00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:42,944 COOGLER: It's pretty incredible, man. 358 00:22:43,153 --> 00:22:45,364 -So much detail in all this stuff. -BEACHLER: Yeah. 359 00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:48,700 All this is crazy. How do they plant all this stuff? 360 00:22:48,784 --> 00:22:50,285 They plant this in real dirt? 361 00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:51,828 Yes, so this whole... 362 00:22:51,912 --> 00:22:53,538 -It's all living plants? -Yes. 363 00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:57,501 And this whole stage is built on dirt. 364 00:22:57,584 --> 00:23:00,420 We cover the ground covering and then bring in the rocks. 365 00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:03,590 You know, this is deeper than any of the other tanks, 366 00:23:04,007 --> 00:23:05,133 so they can dive. 367 00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:15,102 WOMAN: Take it away, five, four, three, two, one. 368 00:23:15,185 --> 00:23:16,353 MAN: Actors go underwater. 369 00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:20,232 COOGLER: I want to go where the story requires us to go. 370 00:23:21,983 --> 00:23:25,570 There was this quote about how little we know about the depths of the ocean. 371 00:23:26,321 --> 00:23:30,075 And how, the deeper you get down there, the more alien things look and seem. 372 00:23:33,495 --> 00:23:35,872 And so for us, we were talking a lot about this film 373 00:23:35,956 --> 00:23:38,417 being like, a first contact movie, in a way. 374 00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:58,228 We were talking about Namor as kinda being... 375 00:23:58,311 --> 00:24:01,648 a little bit of a spaceman, in a deep ocean as outer space. 376 00:24:01,731 --> 00:24:04,985 MAN: All set, three, two, one, action. 377 00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:08,113 COOGLER: At that point, the movie took on this specific identity 378 00:24:08,196 --> 00:24:10,574 of having these water scenes that are super tactile. 379 00:24:10,657 --> 00:24:13,577 MAN: Three, two, one. Turn. 380 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:16,955 COOGLER: And I knew we needed to do it for real, as much as we could. 381 00:24:22,919 --> 00:24:23,920 Hello. 382 00:24:24,004 --> 00:24:27,841 MAN: Cut. And surface. 383 00:24:29,259 --> 00:24:32,679 COOGLER: And it made more sense when things happened that slid our schedule. 384 00:24:32,762 --> 00:24:35,515 We noticed, we're not gonna have a ton of time for... 385 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:37,726 to VFX every single water shot, 386 00:24:37,809 --> 00:24:40,312 so it would be great to get in there and do it. 387 00:24:44,524 --> 00:24:47,986 {\an8}For me, I love doing everything I can in camera. 388 00:24:50,614 --> 00:24:52,365 And it's really all about lighting. 389 00:24:53,158 --> 00:24:56,369 We had to take into consideration a lot of things because... 390 00:24:57,245 --> 00:24:59,039 you know, this city 391 00:24:59,122 --> 00:25:02,292 is so deep under water that there shouldn't be any light. 392 00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:06,505 A lot of what we're used to seeing, underwater worlds, 393 00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:10,342 people breathing under water, sometimes these examples can be 394 00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:14,054 over-lit, that look a little fake, right? 395 00:25:14,137 --> 00:25:15,472 Like they're not underwater. 396 00:25:15,847 --> 00:25:17,474 So we had in our tank 397 00:25:17,557 --> 00:25:20,936 very soft light above pushing through. 398 00:25:21,019 --> 00:25:22,979 MAN: All right. Camera, set. 399 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:26,691 ARKAPAW: So that's the believability factor if you're underwater. 400 00:25:26,775 --> 00:25:29,486 It's like we have this soft, ambient light that feels real, 401 00:25:29,569 --> 00:25:31,571 not very punchy, not reflective. 402 00:25:32,989 --> 00:25:33,990 MAN: Go. 403 00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:37,869 {\an8}Everything is against you under water. 404 00:25:37,953 --> 00:25:41,831 Safety's against you, time's against you, communication's against you. 405 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:44,042 Moviemaking is hard on dry land, 406 00:25:45,502 --> 00:25:46,753 and you get under water, 407 00:25:46,836 --> 00:25:50,840 the difficulty factor gets amplified by a factor of a 100. 408 00:25:50,924 --> 00:25:52,551 WOMAN: Great, and charts. 409 00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:00,016 DENISON: One issue we encountered was 410 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:02,435 a lot of the cast wasn't comfortable swimming. 411 00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:04,980 MAN 1: Five seconds, roll camera. 412 00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:06,106 MAN 2: Rolling. 413 00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,358 WRIGHT: I struggled with it. 414 00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:12,153 Ryan called me and he was like, "Tish, can you swim?" 415 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:13,238 I was like... 416 00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:16,992 "Sir, sir, I'm in the lab. 417 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:20,579 "What more do you need from me coming out of that lab?" 418 00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:22,914 So I had to learn to swim very quickly, 419 00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,458 and everybody was in a corner learning to swim. 420 00:26:26,751 --> 00:26:28,378 Now I've swam... 421 00:26:29,212 --> 00:26:32,048 in a mediocre manner since I was little. 422 00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:37,137 I used to swim like a puppy, you know what I mean? 423 00:26:37,220 --> 00:26:39,472 Not anything that anyone wants to film. 424 00:26:40,348 --> 00:26:42,475 I had to become friends with the water. 425 00:26:44,019 --> 00:26:47,063 You have to be so present when you're dealing with water. 426 00:26:47,772 --> 00:26:48,898 WOMAN: Thirty seconds. 427 00:26:49,316 --> 00:26:50,400 DENISON: Five purges. 428 00:26:58,283 --> 00:26:59,784 NYONG'O: You cannot afford stage fright. 429 00:26:59,868 --> 00:27:02,912 WOMAN: Three, two, one. 430 00:27:03,246 --> 00:27:04,414 MAN: Actors going down. 431 00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:10,754 NYONG'O: You can't afford adrenaline, really. 432 00:27:12,172 --> 00:27:14,007 NYONG'O: You can't afford to hurry. 433 00:27:14,090 --> 00:27:17,594 You actually have to slow all the way down and focus. 434 00:27:19,095 --> 00:27:22,223 And it was such a great lesson for performance in general. 435 00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:25,894 COOGLER: The look back's great. 436 00:27:25,977 --> 00:27:27,729 Right. I said... I told... 437 00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:31,107 -How they're coming after... -COOGLER: Yeah, yeah, totally. 438 00:27:31,191 --> 00:27:32,400 Looks good. 439 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:35,737 DENISON: Throughout the film, we don't really see anybody on actual scuba. 440 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:37,197 Majority of it is free-diving. 441 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,491 You look at Tenoch's character, Mabel's character, 442 00:27:39,574 --> 00:27:42,577 they have to look, not only competent, but very comfortable. 443 00:27:44,245 --> 00:27:45,955 Like they were born under water. 444 00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:47,957 We've to get them to a point 445 00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:50,085 where they're comfortable holding their breath, 446 00:27:50,168 --> 00:27:52,128 they're not thinking about holding their breath, 447 00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:53,296 but thinking about acting. 448 00:27:54,255 --> 00:27:55,423 And being in the scene. 449 00:27:56,299 --> 00:28:00,679 The free-diving is so fantastic and peaceful, 450 00:28:00,762 --> 00:28:04,140 when you are down in the tank, everything is silent 451 00:28:04,224 --> 00:28:10,438 and it's like, active meditation in a way, and I can hold my breath for five minutes. 452 00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:11,606 That's my record. 453 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:21,533 DENISON: Mabel is the single best free dive student I've ever had 454 00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:23,702 and I've taught lots how to breath-hold. 455 00:28:23,785 --> 00:28:27,622 We could push her to 10-minute range if we had another week with her. 456 00:28:28,665 --> 00:28:31,042 What's interesting about Namor and the Talokanil 457 00:28:31,126 --> 00:28:34,045 is they're actually kind of, super soldiers in water 458 00:28:34,129 --> 00:28:36,131 so they're going to want to move through water 459 00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:38,341 in a way that the human body probably can't. 460 00:28:40,593 --> 00:28:42,387 There needs to be an interesting marriage 461 00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:44,597 with the stuff we shoot underwater, wet for wet. 462 00:28:44,681 --> 00:28:45,682 MAN: Cut. 463 00:28:45,765 --> 00:28:48,143 And some stuff we shoot out of water, dry for wet. 464 00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:52,897 Because they're stronger and faster swimmers than any human on the planet. 465 00:28:55,275 --> 00:28:58,194 So there was a lot of figuring out to do 466 00:28:58,278 --> 00:29:01,197 between the different ways that Wakandans move through water 467 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:03,491 versus the Talokanil. 468 00:29:03,575 --> 00:29:07,203 There's a lot of kind of, math and geometry being done constantly 469 00:29:07,287 --> 00:29:11,416 to make sure that those two different groups of people are moving differently. 470 00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:14,335 But there's an internal logic to how everybody moves. 471 00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:16,004 ARKAPAW: When we did our dry for wet, 472 00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:19,799 we were always trying to keep true to how light works in the tank. 473 00:29:19,883 --> 00:29:23,428 Since a lot of wet for wet stuff was shot first, we had a reference. 474 00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:28,933 So, trying to make it look more real is kind of making sure that 475 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:32,061 the rules, the scientific rules of light, 476 00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:34,856 stay true to when you're shooting it underwater. 477 00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:37,025 You want these to maybe push a little bit? 478 00:29:37,108 --> 00:29:38,526 COOGLER: Yes, I do. 479 00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:40,153 -Kind of step out... -Okay, man. 480 00:29:40,236 --> 00:29:43,948 One of the most difficult elements of this film was the exosuits. 481 00:29:44,032 --> 00:29:47,160 It's a submarine that you wear, with the arms and legs. 482 00:29:47,243 --> 00:29:49,579 They make 'em for utility work under water. 483 00:29:49,662 --> 00:29:51,998 Each suit is about a million and a half dollars. 484 00:29:52,707 --> 00:29:54,834 People don't realize that was wet for wet. 485 00:29:55,376 --> 00:29:57,003 Those were the actual suits. 486 00:29:57,337 --> 00:30:02,133 And using the exosuits in the tank was an incredible opportunity to learn. 487 00:30:02,425 --> 00:30:04,552 But it was a massive challenge. 488 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:07,889 MAN: If we can try to see past it through the vibranium detector. 489 00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:12,435 DENISON: We had to all kind of, become experts in them overnight. 490 00:30:12,769 --> 00:30:15,021 Worst thing that could happen is the suit breaks, 491 00:30:15,104 --> 00:30:18,608 they go, "No, the scariest thing is a fire inside of the suit." 492 00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:20,068 It's pretty frightening. 493 00:30:20,443 --> 00:30:21,694 We don't want that. 494 00:30:21,778 --> 00:30:24,572 So we had to develop, just like we do for all stunts, 495 00:30:24,656 --> 00:30:26,741 a safety plan for how the suits work. 496 00:30:28,576 --> 00:30:30,787 But it was pretty phenomenal, the end result. 497 00:30:31,287 --> 00:30:33,081 This is practical moviemaking at its finest, 498 00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:36,334 which, in the age of VFX, is a very cool thing to see, right? 499 00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:39,087 MAN: Alex, you ready? 500 00:30:39,587 --> 00:30:41,047 All right, here we go. Ready? 501 00:30:41,422 --> 00:30:43,132 And, action. 502 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:51,182 -You okay? -I moved my head. 503 00:30:52,141 --> 00:30:55,395 {\an8}I was intimidated. I'm not gonna lie. 504 00:30:57,230 --> 00:31:01,484 You know, I've seen Danai on TV for years, you know. 505 00:31:01,943 --> 00:31:02,986 The Walking Dead. 506 00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:05,905 So, meeting her, it was like... 507 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:09,951 "Hi, how you doing, I'm Alex." 508 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:13,204 But she's been great, you know. 509 00:31:13,788 --> 00:31:15,915 She's the one that I worked with the most. 510 00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:19,961 And she's been the most amazing person 511 00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:21,379 in the sense of... 512 00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:23,673 This is my first time in the MCU 513 00:31:23,756 --> 00:31:26,467 or doing something this big and that fight on the bridge... 514 00:31:29,137 --> 00:31:30,263 You get goosebumps. 515 00:31:31,639 --> 00:31:34,475 When I first started and I actually saw the video 516 00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:36,686 the stunt guys made for our fight, 517 00:31:36,769 --> 00:31:38,021 I was intimidated. 518 00:31:40,189 --> 00:31:42,650 I was like, "Man, I look so good." 519 00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:44,235 Why should I mess it up? 520 00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:51,784 So it was a lot of training for a long time, for a lot of weeks. 521 00:31:55,038 --> 00:31:57,373 When I started, it was like I had two left feet. 522 00:31:57,707 --> 00:32:00,585 I couldn't move as well as they did, but through time, 523 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,795 I... I got it. 524 00:32:02,879 --> 00:32:06,507 You know, I started dancing, as they call it. 525 00:32:17,226 --> 00:32:19,854 {\an8}Something that was very important 526 00:32:19,938 --> 00:32:24,025 {\an8}was to highlight what Danai could actually do as Okoye. 527 00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:28,905 Because I think it's important to capture her on screen, you know? 528 00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:31,991 We could always go to a double, it's not... That's easy, right? 529 00:32:32,492 --> 00:32:34,202 But Danai put in a lot of work. 530 00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:39,499 And I think actors are different than your average stunt performer 531 00:32:39,582 --> 00:32:42,335 because a stunt performer will try to definitely... 532 00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:46,047 Not all of them, but they will try to do everything 533 00:32:46,422 --> 00:32:48,216 physically with more grit, 534 00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:50,635 but an actor thinks about the emotion behind it. 535 00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:52,428 COOGLER: Cut. cut. MAN: Cut it, cut it. 536 00:32:52,762 --> 00:32:54,055 Let's do one more, I'm sorry. 537 00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:55,348 MAN: Reset. 538 00:32:55,431 --> 00:32:57,725 Don't you think like she should get right next to camera 539 00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,394 -So I can come in faster? -COOGLER: Yeah. 540 00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:04,399 TONEY: There's more weight, and so when that translates, 541 00:33:05,024 --> 00:33:06,859 you get something very special. 542 00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:15,284 GURIRA: In Okoye's mind, there's no one who's gonna top her 543 00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,078 in regards to combat. 544 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:20,498 Doesn't matter what their size is, 545 00:33:20,581 --> 00:33:23,543 it doesn't matter what their musculature is. 546 00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:26,129 It's like I'm too skilled to be taken down 547 00:33:26,212 --> 00:33:28,589 by y'all who just came off of a killer whale's back. 548 00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:31,134 Cute, but let me just get to work. 549 00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:34,220 So that's how she thinks, you know. 550 00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:37,473 Take another step closer... 551 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:40,518 and I will kill you all. 552 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,191 I really wanted to make Attuma just bigger 553 00:33:47,275 --> 00:33:52,155 than everybody else physically, to create that intimidating size. 554 00:33:53,406 --> 00:33:56,242 So, yeah, a lot of working out and a lot of eating, 555 00:33:56,325 --> 00:33:59,871 I was eating like, every ten seconds. 556 00:33:59,954 --> 00:34:03,416 You know, I was consuming about 6,000 calories a day 557 00:34:03,499 --> 00:34:04,667 and I gained 30 pounds. 558 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:09,881 They're gonna see Attuma be large, look intimidating, but be swift. 559 00:34:13,801 --> 00:34:15,261 Danai is gonna be different. 560 00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:23,811 She has to be extremely tactical about how she attacks, 561 00:34:24,103 --> 00:34:26,856 because this guy is extremely powerful. 562 00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:28,858 So you're gonna see her calculating. 563 00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:32,862 You're gonna see her... 564 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,656 rarely on the ropes, 565 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,117 but you're gonna see a little vulnerability here. 566 00:34:39,327 --> 00:34:41,454 She's never faced anyone like this before. 567 00:34:48,419 --> 00:34:52,340 With Okoye, what I was deeply attracted to 568 00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:58,262 was, from the jump, Ryan was very clear about how he wanted her to be. 569 00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:02,642 And then, kinda going like this. 570 00:35:03,726 --> 00:35:06,312 GURIRA: And the way, the idea of her being a general 571 00:35:06,395 --> 00:35:08,397 the idea of the Dora Milaje 572 00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:11,692 and then, the traditionalism of who she was 573 00:35:11,776 --> 00:35:16,072 was definitely something that really helped me anchor her. 574 00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:21,828 'Cause her connection to her country was so, so passionate. 575 00:35:21,911 --> 00:35:24,747 This is a woman who actually really enjoys her life. 576 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:28,501 And she loves being a Wakandan more than anything. 577 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:32,046 But you know, when you're being told you can't be a soldier anymore, 578 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,549 and that's all you've been that's all you know, 579 00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:38,636 that's definitely... a dark corridor. 580 00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:41,556 But that's the arc she has to take. 581 00:35:42,431 --> 00:35:45,226 She never thought she'd do anything but die for Wakanda, 582 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:48,020 you know, in that uniform. 583 00:35:48,729 --> 00:35:52,191 But when that's taken off, now who are you? 584 00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:54,819 And that's what she has to find 585 00:35:54,902 --> 00:35:58,781 and that's what she... ultimately finds with the Midnight Angels. 586 00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:03,494 I'm excited about the cultures celebrated in this film, 587 00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:07,748 I'm excited about the new characters that will be introduced to the world. 588 00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:11,627 Especially to see how Dominique's portrayal of Riri 589 00:36:11,711 --> 00:36:13,546 come alive, it's so beautiful because... 590 00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:15,798 Riri is now in Africa 591 00:36:15,882 --> 00:36:19,093 and Riri is now a reflection of T'Challa's decision. 592 00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:21,929 She is a result of T'Challa's decision in saying 593 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:25,516 {\an8}we're gonna open our borders, we're gonna help. 594 00:36:26,184 --> 00:36:27,810 We must find a way... 595 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,354 to look after one another... 596 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:35,151 as if we were one, single tribe. 597 00:36:35,234 --> 00:36:36,986 When we were making the first film, 598 00:36:37,069 --> 00:36:39,280 one of the things that we kept talking about 599 00:36:39,363 --> 00:36:42,200 is that, yes, Wakandan is extremely African, right? 600 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,036 {\an8}But, in terms of their mentality, 601 00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:47,914 {\an8}because they are, "on top of the world," 602 00:36:47,997 --> 00:36:49,916 they are only concerned with themselves. 603 00:36:49,999 --> 00:36:52,251 And in a sense, that's a reflection of America. 604 00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:57,548 I believe I speak for all the member states here... 605 00:36:59,133 --> 00:37:04,013 when I say that I am deeply disappointed in Wakanda's failure. 606 00:37:04,513 --> 00:37:08,935 So, in our narrative, Wakanda is that. 607 00:37:09,018 --> 00:37:12,063 And what Riri does for us 608 00:37:12,146 --> 00:37:16,150 is open up Wakanda for us to be able to relate 609 00:37:16,234 --> 00:37:21,155 and for other people to be able to see other perspectives. 610 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,407 Riri, I love all that she represents 611 00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:26,369 and Dominique herself is extremely impressive. 612 00:37:26,452 --> 00:37:27,912 She's the daughter of immigrants, 613 00:37:27,995 --> 00:37:30,248 first child to go to college in her whole family, 614 00:37:30,331 --> 00:37:33,918 she just graduated from Cornell herself in the sciences, 615 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,545 and she's playing this role, I think that's so cool, 616 00:37:36,629 --> 00:37:37,797 like, it gets me teary-eyed. 617 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:38,965 Hey. 618 00:37:39,048 --> 00:37:41,676 The poetry of it is that's actually who's playing it. 619 00:37:41,759 --> 00:37:42,969 You forgot to Venmo me. 620 00:37:43,344 --> 00:37:45,554 It slipped my mind. It's eight hundred, right? 621 00:37:46,681 --> 00:37:49,600 Eight hundred was yesterday's price. It's a band today. 622 00:37:50,309 --> 00:37:52,103 My name is Dominique Thorne. 623 00:37:52,186 --> 00:37:55,481 {\an8}Dominique auditioned for Shuri for the first movie. 624 00:37:56,274 --> 00:37:58,693 The particles absorb the kinetic energy 625 00:37:58,776 --> 00:38:01,237 and hold it in place for redistribution. 626 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,864 And we really liked her and we thought she was smart 627 00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:06,284 and she has a great presence and she is funny 628 00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:09,245 and she has a lot of attitude but we remembered that audition. 629 00:38:09,328 --> 00:38:12,540 Old tech. Functional, but old. 630 00:38:13,165 --> 00:38:17,420 Oh! People are shooting at me. Wait, guys, let me put on my helmet. 631 00:38:17,503 --> 00:38:22,008 And so when we decided to put Riri Williams into Wakanda Forever, 632 00:38:22,091 --> 00:38:23,759 she was the first and only call. 633 00:38:26,053 --> 00:38:30,099 DUKE: This is her foray into coming into something 634 00:38:30,182 --> 00:38:34,228 that felt really established and like, we all had our own relationships 635 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:39,066 and she came in strong, holding her own, very prepared, 636 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:43,446 and just willing to go toe to toe with everyone and that's her character. 637 00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:46,991 Yo, we got him. 638 00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:51,912 {\an8}It felt like stepping into a family, stepping into someone's home. 639 00:38:52,204 --> 00:38:54,457 Please show Miss Williams where she's working. 640 00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:55,666 WOMAN: Right this way. 641 00:38:55,958 --> 00:38:59,545 And wanting to enter in with the utmost respect 642 00:38:59,628 --> 00:39:04,842 and reverence for what it is and what they've done. 643 00:39:04,925 --> 00:39:09,555 But it was also exciting because sort of, Riri's presence there 644 00:39:09,638 --> 00:39:12,475 along with these new characters meant that there was more 645 00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:15,728 {\an8}to be found, more to explore. 646 00:39:15,811 --> 00:39:19,231 {\an8}It was very, very fun and beautiful 647 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:24,028 to sort of, go on that ride with the folks who know the place best. 648 00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:29,992 CARTER: You see that in the story, Riri builds this machine 649 00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:32,370 {\an8}that Shuri is very impressed by, 650 00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:35,915 {\an8}and it flies and it shoots and it does all kinds of things. 651 00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:40,127 MAN: Three, two, one and blast. 652 00:39:43,339 --> 00:39:45,174 GRIOT: Oxygen, 0%. 653 00:39:49,011 --> 00:39:52,681 CARTER: And it's also a very difficult costume to craft. 654 00:39:52,765 --> 00:39:55,976 It's actually, you know, put together 655 00:39:56,060 --> 00:40:00,815 through some mold work but also, you know, there's metal work there 656 00:40:00,898 --> 00:40:05,945 and it's also a costume of all kinds of mechanical parts. 657 00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:10,991 And you can imagine the plethora of pieces that would go into a costume like that. 658 00:40:11,534 --> 00:40:14,537 They were all discussed over many multiple meetings. 659 00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:18,791 What these cannons do, what her armpieces do, 660 00:40:18,874 --> 00:40:20,626 how she moves about. 661 00:40:20,709 --> 00:40:24,630 There were so many elements to that costume that had to be sussed out. 662 00:40:24,713 --> 00:40:26,757 It's such a smart build because 663 00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:31,011 as heavy and as bulky as it is, all of my joints are free 664 00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:34,598 and so I could step, I could walk, I could wave, I could squat. 665 00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:39,437 I could do all the things, but just with this extra weight on. 666 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,565 I think it's probably most comparable to football gear, 667 00:40:42,648 --> 00:40:45,484 is what a lot of folks were comparing it to. 668 00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:50,072 And I definitely do feel like, "Yeah, like, I'm ready for anything now," 669 00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:52,158 you know, which is a great feeling. 670 00:40:52,533 --> 00:40:55,995 MAN: On my call, in three, two, one, action. 671 00:40:58,456 --> 00:40:59,623 MAN: Cut it. Cut, cut. 672 00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:01,292 You all right? 673 00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:04,295 But the Mark II is where we get to see 674 00:41:04,378 --> 00:41:09,717 that sort of, Wakandan flair sort of, rub off on Riri. 675 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,635 It has a much sleeker design. 676 00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:15,681 There were a lot of discussions about how closely 677 00:41:15,764 --> 00:41:19,059 it would relate to the Iron Man costume. 678 00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:23,355 And Ryan wanted it to be Chicago Bulls red 679 00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:25,858 and we moved the heart to the side, 680 00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:29,945 but only half of the costume actually was built. 681 00:41:30,029 --> 00:41:33,407 We built a maquette, which is like a doll, which was the full size 682 00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:36,535 that they're able to use with visual effects. 683 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:40,748 There was a kind of movie magic that went on with that costume 684 00:41:40,831 --> 00:41:46,170 because it had to perform, you know, such fantastical things in the air, 685 00:41:46,253 --> 00:41:48,964 and spin and dive and all kinds of stuff 686 00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:52,092 that she would not have been able to do in a full costume. 687 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,970 {\an8}Old tech, functional but old. 688 00:41:55,054 --> 00:41:58,474 {\an8}People are shooting at me. Wait, let me put on my helmet. 689 00:41:58,557 --> 00:42:00,809 For now, tell it to go on. 690 00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:02,895 Once we realized what the movie was gonna be, 691 00:42:02,978 --> 00:42:05,606 this version of the movie was gonna be, 692 00:42:06,607 --> 00:42:09,777 I realized that it was a unique opportunity for me as a creative 693 00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:14,114 to have a protagonist just go on like, a transformative arc. 694 00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:16,534 I'm not my brother. 695 00:42:18,494 --> 00:42:20,037 Namor will beg me for mercy... 696 00:42:21,288 --> 00:42:23,207 and I will stand and watch as he dies. 697 00:42:23,832 --> 00:42:27,127 You know, I was thankful that Letitia's such an amazing actress, 698 00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,922 'cause this is not the role that she auditioned for. 699 00:42:30,506 --> 00:42:33,050 We were really blessed in terms of her being that versatile 700 00:42:33,133 --> 00:42:36,387 that she could make you believe that she was that younger sister 701 00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:39,932 who could have fun, you know, with T'Challa and rib him, 702 00:42:40,140 --> 00:42:42,935 and feel youthful and like she was full of love and light. 703 00:42:43,018 --> 00:42:46,105 And then become this character, which is a totally different thing. 704 00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:49,775 Was the herb not destroyed? 705 00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:52,695 Yes, I recreated it. 706 00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:55,531 With science? 707 00:42:56,448 --> 00:42:57,449 Yes. 708 00:42:57,533 --> 00:42:58,784 MOORE: For us as storytellers, 709 00:42:58,867 --> 00:43:04,456 I think Ramonda's passing was important in bringing Shuri to her lowest, 710 00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:08,836 and really breaking down this girl whose spirit seemed unbreakable, 711 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:11,755 to see what the breaking point might be. 712 00:43:12,423 --> 00:43:15,050 I just buried the last person who truly knew me. 713 00:43:18,846 --> 00:43:20,306 My heart was buried with her. 714 00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:22,891 It was not a decision we made lightly 715 00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:26,645 because Ramonda's a fantastic character and Angela Basset is a talented actress 716 00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:28,939 and a part of the family. 717 00:43:29,356 --> 00:43:30,357 Shuri. 718 00:43:31,025 --> 00:43:32,318 Show him... 719 00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:34,069 who you are. 720 00:43:35,821 --> 00:43:36,864 COOGLER: Okay, cut. 721 00:43:36,947 --> 00:43:37,948 MAN: Cut it. 722 00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:44,371 WRIGHT: I'll be very honest. 723 00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:49,877 When I read that Ramonda was going to die by the hands of Namor, 724 00:43:50,669 --> 00:43:52,087 I was very upset. 725 00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,798 I think I almost cried on the phone to Ryan. 726 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:58,093 I was kinda like, "What are you doing? What is this?" 727 00:43:58,677 --> 00:44:00,679 I'm so sorry about your mom. 728 00:44:00,763 --> 00:44:02,056 BASSETT: I guess it's... 729 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:09,647 When you take an audience on a journey, it's like you gotta grab them by the heart 730 00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:13,442 and rip it out of them, I suppose, but I was... 731 00:44:13,525 --> 00:44:15,194 It took me a moment, 732 00:44:15,277 --> 00:44:18,280 I had to process it, I had to get over it. 733 00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,451 For Ramonda, here's a woman who has been girded by loss, 734 00:44:22,534 --> 00:44:26,330 who has become a very, very successful queen of Wakanda, 735 00:44:26,413 --> 00:44:29,458 and has done a great job in defending her nation from all comers. 736 00:44:29,625 --> 00:44:33,337 And yet, her daughter is suffering from depression over the loss of her brother 737 00:44:33,504 --> 00:44:36,465 and it's Ramonda's job to try and pull Shuri out of this place 738 00:44:36,548 --> 00:44:40,344 and let her see that there is the potential to move forward through loss. 739 00:44:40,511 --> 00:44:43,389 When that illness took your brother from us... 740 00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:47,476 I had to lead a wounded nation and a broken world. 741 00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,270 But I still took time in the bush. 742 00:44:51,397 --> 00:44:55,401 My most precious resource is my daughter at this point. 743 00:44:56,777 --> 00:45:00,280 You can imagine with her husband and her son gone, 744 00:45:00,572 --> 00:45:04,827 that her embrace is that much, you know, tighter around Shuri. 745 00:45:04,910 --> 00:45:07,830 Physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. 746 00:45:07,913 --> 00:45:10,082 And that's what a mother does, 747 00:45:10,165 --> 00:45:12,710 she does sacrifice her life for her kids, you know, 748 00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:15,587 and being a mother, I know this all too well, 749 00:45:15,671 --> 00:45:17,297 we'll do anything for them. 750 00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:19,383 WRIGHT: As we were doing it, 751 00:45:20,092 --> 00:45:23,846 I realized, it did inspire Shuri's arc. 752 00:45:23,929 --> 00:45:29,309 It did really inspire... that thirst for vengeance 753 00:45:29,393 --> 00:45:33,063 that you'll see when Shuri takes on the Black Panther mantle. 754 00:45:37,943 --> 00:45:41,405 Very early on, Ryan explained to me where he was at 755 00:45:41,488 --> 00:45:43,699 and he asked me where I was at. 756 00:45:43,782 --> 00:45:48,120 And he felt really strongly that Chadwick would want us to continue. 757 00:45:48,203 --> 00:45:53,709 He slowly explained to me how we can honor Chad in this film, 758 00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:57,713 and how we can honor what was created by us as a family 759 00:45:58,547 --> 00:46:01,258 and I started to realize what he was saying. 760 00:46:01,341 --> 00:46:04,136 And it was for me, like a bittersweet experience 761 00:46:04,219 --> 00:46:07,723 because Shuri does become the Black Panther in the comic books. 762 00:46:07,806 --> 00:46:13,645 But like, I didn't have my brother to pass the torch to me. 763 00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:15,481 So... 764 00:46:17,316 --> 00:46:21,153 I had to, kinda like, process that. 765 00:46:21,862 --> 00:46:26,950 And once I felt at peace that it was the right thing, 766 00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:30,078 I accepted and I said to Ryan, I'll do my best. 767 00:46:30,162 --> 00:46:33,749 And I made a commitment, I was like, I'll honor God and I'll honor Chad. 768 00:46:41,089 --> 00:46:44,885 When I put the panther suit on, it was a surreal moment. 769 00:46:44,968 --> 00:46:46,386 I did feel pretty cool 770 00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:51,558 and they incorporated a few Shuri elements from the first film. 771 00:46:51,642 --> 00:46:56,063 So Shuri had gauntlets and they kind of, incorporated those into her suit. 772 00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,607 {\an8}Essentially, we were working with the design language of 773 00:46:58,690 --> 00:47:01,151 silver being representative of T'Challa, 774 00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:03,320 gold being representative of T'Chaka, 775 00:47:03,403 --> 00:47:06,114 and the little bit of where Killmonger's coming from. 776 00:47:06,198 --> 00:47:08,826 And Shuri's design, we're essentially taking those two elements 777 00:47:08,909 --> 00:47:09,952 and combining them. 778 00:47:10,035 --> 00:47:13,455 So that she is taking what works from each one of those methodologies 779 00:47:13,539 --> 00:47:16,750 and making them intertwine into her Black Panther suit. 780 00:47:16,875 --> 00:47:20,295 Finding her own voice with the things 781 00:47:20,712 --> 00:47:23,465 My first day in the suit, I did feel really nervous. 782 00:47:24,091 --> 00:47:27,344 I was like, am I meant to walk like this, talk like this? 783 00:47:27,427 --> 00:47:29,930 And I just kept hearing my brother saying like, 784 00:47:30,013 --> 00:47:32,975 "Calm down. It's cool, don't worry. 785 00:47:33,058 --> 00:47:36,478 "And just keep going, just keep walking and just be confident. 786 00:47:36,562 --> 00:47:38,063 "Just be confident." 787 00:47:42,693 --> 00:47:45,654 MAN: And here it comes, back at you and... Duck! 788 00:47:48,824 --> 00:47:49,908 COOGLER: And... duck. 789 00:47:50,492 --> 00:47:52,744 Nice. Nice, nice. Much more like that, okay? 790 00:47:53,161 --> 00:47:56,164 DENISON: When you choreograph a giant scene like that third act battle, 791 00:47:56,248 --> 00:48:00,419 {\an8}you read the script, you're just drinking out of the firehose. 792 00:48:00,502 --> 00:48:02,296 {\an8}How're we gonna get this action done? 793 00:48:02,379 --> 00:48:04,631 But then you start breaking it down piece by piece. 794 00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:05,924 What are the main beats? 795 00:48:08,844 --> 00:48:10,053 They come out of the water. 796 00:48:16,393 --> 00:48:18,020 They climb the side of the ship. 797 00:48:19,521 --> 00:48:23,400 The Dora come off and then you have to just fine tune things from there. 798 00:48:23,483 --> 00:48:26,862 So, we had these huge days like, 50 plus performers, 799 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,116 we've got a crane up, we have warriors coming up, 800 00:48:31,199 --> 00:48:33,452 doing organic falls, there's lines everywhere. 801 00:48:33,535 --> 00:48:34,536 It gets tough. 802 00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:35,662 Go. 803 00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:37,915 DAVID HUGGHINS: They have to make sure they're committed. 804 00:48:37,998 --> 00:48:42,419 {\an8}Once a person commits to the jump, they've gone beyond the point of return, 805 00:48:42,502 --> 00:48:46,214 they're out there, you can release 'em bring 'em down at whatever speed you want. 806 00:48:46,673 --> 00:48:50,218 We also have to make sure that in the choreographing of that scene, 807 00:48:50,302 --> 00:48:51,720 we gotta have people climbing up 808 00:48:51,803 --> 00:48:54,848 in a way that they're out of the way when they're running down 809 00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:57,225 so they're not hit by accident. 810 00:48:57,309 --> 00:48:59,019 Everybody has to know where they're at. 811 00:48:59,102 --> 00:49:03,148 It's like a dance, everybody needs to know exactly what step they're on. 812 00:49:04,399 --> 00:49:07,611 Are you ready to bathe in the blood of Wakanda's enemies? 813 00:49:13,742 --> 00:49:19,039 With some really great training, it's just the physicality of the Jabari, 814 00:49:19,122 --> 00:49:21,959 where you get to dive a little bit more into that. 815 00:49:24,169 --> 00:49:26,713 There will be no climbing here. 816 00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,341 The fight training was really incredible 817 00:49:29,424 --> 00:49:33,637 and I always try to make M'Baku feel like a strong man 818 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:36,890 instead of like, a bodybuilder or a guy that's about aesthetic. 819 00:49:36,974 --> 00:49:40,894 So, like, he has a lot of weight culturally on his back. 820 00:49:41,269 --> 00:49:42,854 And he carries it with pride. 821 00:49:44,398 --> 00:49:48,110 And that's a really big part of what defines the character. 822 00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:52,322 MAN: Follow the chart. 823 00:49:58,453 --> 00:49:59,871 TONEY: Shuri versus Namor. 824 00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:02,541 {\an8}We put a lot into that fight. 825 00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:16,513 And it's got a lot of heart and there's so much weight behind this moment, 826 00:50:16,596 --> 00:50:20,392 because you don't see a lot of Shuri, you know, in action. 827 00:50:20,475 --> 00:50:23,687 So, when you do, it's gotta be impactful. 828 00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:24,771 Go! 829 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:27,649 WRIGHT: Yeah, it's a great payoff. 830 00:50:27,733 --> 00:50:28,734 I'm so proud of it. 831 00:50:28,817 --> 00:50:31,445 And Shuri's looking amazing, Namor's looking amazing. 832 00:50:34,322 --> 00:50:36,783 But something that is very important to take into account 833 00:50:37,117 --> 00:50:38,535 was that Shuri is smart. 834 00:50:38,618 --> 00:50:41,079 She uses her mind before she uses her body. 835 00:50:41,163 --> 00:50:45,208 There isn't a lot of flash, there is more calculation. 836 00:50:48,754 --> 00:50:51,506 With Namor, when it came to fighting styles, 837 00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:56,219 I pulled from not only sort of, cultural aspects like Lucha Libre 838 00:50:56,303 --> 00:50:59,765 the sort of ball game that they go out and play with their bodies, 839 00:50:59,848 --> 00:51:02,100 but also I pulled from Asian cultures. 840 00:51:02,476 --> 00:51:04,478 I pulled from a style called Baji 841 00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:09,024 and Baji is a style that focusses on grounding your body 842 00:51:09,107 --> 00:51:11,109 while delivering shoulder strikes, 843 00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:15,197 elbow strikes, so you're gonna see Namor do things 844 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,449 that are unorthodox, 845 00:51:17,532 --> 00:51:19,743 but effective because he is the person he is. 846 00:51:21,870 --> 00:51:26,792 Namor is more like, yeah, the fight is not an explosion, 847 00:51:26,875 --> 00:51:30,087 it's little by little, you know, he's more in control. 848 00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:34,716 TONEY: It was fun to play around with the wings, you know, 849 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,676 special, sort of like, quick attacks. 850 00:51:37,135 --> 00:51:38,470 Or him boosting. 851 00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:42,766 But also, they said, can we rip the wings off? 852 00:51:45,018 --> 00:51:48,605 They grow back, he'll be fine, but it gives you an opportunity 853 00:51:48,688 --> 00:51:53,193 to humanize this God-like character and make him come to her. 854 00:51:53,276 --> 00:51:55,987 And so that's playing to Shuri being smart. 855 00:52:09,084 --> 00:52:10,252 COOGLER: Shuri, look at me. 856 00:52:14,131 --> 00:52:15,423 See your Ma. 857 00:52:16,424 --> 00:52:17,801 Call out to her. 858 00:52:19,886 --> 00:52:21,096 Mother. 859 00:52:21,721 --> 00:52:22,848 COOGLER: It's time to show him. 860 00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:27,060 Time to show him who we are. 861 00:52:27,686 --> 00:52:28,854 Go get him. 862 00:52:33,984 --> 00:52:35,152 Go get him. 863 00:52:36,862 --> 00:52:38,071 Make him pay. 864 00:52:46,788 --> 00:52:49,249 WRIGHT: For Shuri, it's kind of like a coming of age moment 865 00:52:49,332 --> 00:52:54,421 where she's thinking that, processing in a way of violence. 866 00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:55,505 Wakanda forever! 867 00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:04,764 Processing in a way of expressing her pain and her fury 868 00:53:05,473 --> 00:53:09,436 towards Namor, she thinks that's gonna be satisfying to her soul and it's not. 869 00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:13,773 And I think that's a beautiful way to complete that arc. 870 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:17,861 To realize that, wait, my brother wouldn't do this. 871 00:53:17,944 --> 00:53:19,779 You know, my mother wouldn't want this for me. 872 00:53:19,863 --> 00:53:23,366 And she learns from that and she becomes a woman, 873 00:53:23,450 --> 00:53:27,579 you know, we see Shuri become a woman in her own right. 874 00:53:37,464 --> 00:53:41,593 Sometimes life imitates art and art imitates life. 875 00:53:41,676 --> 00:53:46,681 And I feel that this movie, the art is imitating life. 876 00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:51,895 DUKE: This is a movie about loss... 877 00:53:53,980 --> 00:53:57,609 and about growth, and about pain 878 00:53:57,692 --> 00:54:01,112 and the transformation that happens as a result. 879 00:54:02,113 --> 00:54:03,240 COOGLER: More than anything, 880 00:54:03,949 --> 00:54:06,451 different people will get different things out of it. 881 00:54:07,494 --> 00:54:10,830 Hopefully you see something in it and it speaks to you in a way that... 882 00:54:12,123 --> 00:54:14,251 deals with things that you've been 883 00:54:14,334 --> 00:54:16,544 wrestling with consciously or subconsciously. 884 00:54:16,628 --> 00:54:19,881 Ladies and gentlemen, that's a picture finish on Miss Angela Basset. 885 00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:24,010 Ryan has such a big heart and such a great storyteller 886 00:54:24,094 --> 00:54:28,014 and within the storytelling, what Ryan has done 887 00:54:28,098 --> 00:54:30,642 gives lightness and joy to our sadness. 888 00:54:30,725 --> 00:54:34,229 MAN: Picture wrap of Mr. Winston Duke, ladies and gentlemen. 889 00:54:34,312 --> 00:54:36,439 We did it, man. 890 00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:39,567 MAN: It's also a picture finish on Ms. Lupita Nyong'o. 891 00:54:41,736 --> 00:54:45,031 COOGLER: After Panther one, what I was most excited about 892 00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:47,617 was seeing everybody who I worked on the first one with, 893 00:54:47,701 --> 00:54:49,286 'cause we'd become like family. 894 00:54:49,869 --> 00:54:51,454 And then we lost Chad. 895 00:54:52,914 --> 00:54:56,167 And it kinda changed everything for this one, you know. 896 00:54:57,919 --> 00:55:02,382 It just became bigger in a way that was unexpected for all of us. 897 00:55:03,008 --> 00:55:04,551 WRIGHT: Having the support of Ryan, 898 00:55:05,885 --> 00:55:10,724 he just confidently, always would say, "Hey, Tish, like, you could do this." 899 00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:13,268 And just pushing me forward each day. 900 00:55:14,477 --> 00:55:16,438 You gotta keep inspiring people. 901 00:55:16,521 --> 00:55:19,983 And I'm praying that that will be the result for Shuri, 902 00:55:20,066 --> 00:55:23,445 that as she's growing and she's evolving, 903 00:55:23,528 --> 00:55:25,905 that later down the line we can be like, 904 00:55:25,989 --> 00:55:27,657 "Wow, that's a great woman, 905 00:55:27,741 --> 00:55:31,453 "that's a great example to so many people in the world." 906 00:55:32,704 --> 00:55:35,707 COOGLER: From our family to yours, we just wanna say thank you. 907 00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:39,294 Deeply. Deeply, deeply, deeply, for taking care of this story, 908 00:55:39,377 --> 00:55:41,212 for taking care of me, taking care of us. 909 00:55:42,005 --> 00:55:45,300 And you guys allowed me to heal, from something that was really... 910 00:56:03,234 --> 00:56:06,363 From something that was difficult. So, thank you for that. 911 00:56:06,738 --> 00:56:09,032 Wakanda forever. Líik'ik Talokan. 912 00:56:09,449 --> 00:56:10,700 Love you guys, thank you. 913 00:56:16,623 --> 00:56:20,835 I think part of the reason you make this movie 914 00:56:20,919 --> 00:56:22,545 is it changes perspective. 915 00:56:24,422 --> 00:56:26,966 People can see a superhero in a different light. 916 00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:30,387 A different worldview, and to be a part of that is a special thing.