Black Panther.The Academy Award-winning actor played W’Kabi, the confidant and best friend of the late Chadwick Boseman’s character of T’Challa – and the husband of Okoye – in the original movie directed by Ryan Coogler.According to a report by Rotten Tomatoes, Kaluuya was asked to return for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but couldn’t commit to the project due to scheduling conflicts with Jordan Peele’s upcoming horror flick, Nope.After Kaluuya’s breakout performance in 2017’s Get Out, he had become more intentional in the way that he chooses and approaches his acting roles.
In his cover story with ESSENCE in July, the British-born entertainer stated: “I want to go into places that I don’t know I can.
I want three-dimensional characters. I want to tell the story, no matter how big or how small.”Later in his conversation with Jordan Peele, he added: “For me, it’s about, ‘What genre can you reinvent?
And what genre can you expand?’ I feel like you have expanded horror already, and now you’re doing it again—giving it scale and epicness.
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