You’re watching his sister, Shuri, mourn. I mean, I heard sniffles.Īnd this funeral also presents this really fascinating meta moment, where you’re watching T’Challa’s mother, Queen Ramonda, weep. It gives us this beautiful ritual of grief, and everybody’s in white, and the music is - it’s moving. And he was the King of Wakanda, right? They have to have a service worthy of the King. Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman. I was less fascinated by that question, because I mean, I mourn Chadwick Boseman, right? But I just assumed that what was going to happen was, this world is big enough to find a plot that both accommodates the death of T’Challa, a.k.a. Ryan Coogler was like, I am not going to recast “Black Panther.” So it was this big question mark. wesley morrisĪ lot of people were grieving. wesley morrisīut a big question on my mind - and I think on the mind of many people - was how the movie is going to deal with the passing of Chadwick Boseman, who died in August 2020 after a long battle with cancer that many people did not know about.
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