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How ‘Wakanda Forever’ Honored Chadwick Boseman With White Costumes From Oscar Winner Ruth E. Carter

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Michaela Zee editor To Ruth E. Carter, the color white in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” was “very specific and meaningful” for the costume design.

White not only connects “us to tradition in Africa,” Carter explained, it also pays tribute to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman. “In the Ancestral Plane, when T’Challa wakes up and sees his father, he’s wearing white,” Carter told Variety on Thursday night at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Youth of the Year Gala. “White is a color that’s worn in a lot of funerals in Africa — it’s either bright red or it’s white — and we chose white because it connects us to Chadwick, to T’Challa.” Boseman died in August 2020 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.

While the question of who will become the new Black Panther still lingers, Carter shared a few details about redesigning the hero’s suit. “There was a very careful study of how do we make this person a superhero without changing them so much — that it’s not believable as them,” Carter said, avoiding any reference to who is donning the costume. “This one has silver and gold elements [while] our beloved Chadwick Boseman’s suit was all silver, so that already made it a lot more glamorous for the wearer.” Carter attended the Boys & Girls Clubs’ 75th National Youth of the Year Gala at The Beverly Hilton, where one teen finalist among six honorees claimed this year’s national title. “I took my first sewing class ever at the Boys & Girls Club,” Carter told Variety. “I remember that class because I tried cutting out a pattern without pinning it to the material.

That was the first lesson that I learned — you have to pin it down.” At the ceremony, country music artist Kane Brown received this year’s Champion of Youth Award.

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