Last year I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to visit the set of Marvel’s Black Panther. The Ryan Coogler-directed film promises to showcase T’Challa and his homeland of Wakanda in all of it’s Afro-Futuristic glory.
On a cool Friday morning in February, a group of 19 journalists gathered on folding chairs under a pop-up tent (that was surrounded by tarp behind us and on each side) to look at a TV. What we saw on the screen was the filming of a scene featuring CIA Agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) interrogating arms dealer and mercenary, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) in a safehouse, while T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and later Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) watched the conversation from behind a two-way mirror.
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On a cool Friday morning in February, a group of 19 journalists gathered on folding chairs under a pop-up tent (that was surrounded by tarp behind us and on each side) to look at a TV. What we saw on the screen was the filming of a scene featuring CIA Agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) interrogating arms dealer and mercenary, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) in a safehouse, while T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and later Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) watched the conversation from behind a two-way mirror.
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