Chadwick Boseman who is set to become the first black superhero in the Marvel film universe, recently opened up about his experiences with dealing with racism growing up in South Carolina and his journey to portraying Marvel’s Black Panther, which is a tale of King T’Challa, the leader of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.
Boseman expressed, “It’s not hard to find in South Carolina. Going to high school, I’d see Confederate flags on trucks.” He added, “I know what it’s like to be a kid at an ice-cream shop when some little white kid calls you ‘n**ger,’ but your parents tell you to calm down because they know it could blow up. We even had trucks try to run us off the road.”
Boseman opened up about his character that of T'Challa, a character that he idolized as a young man and revealed that he was anonymously handed a copy of one of the comic books while filming Gods of Egypt as and also that he mysteriously kept running into panther motifs right up until he decided on playing Marvel superhero.
Marvel’s Black Panther is set to hit theatres on February 16, 2018.
