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Does blk panther keep his mask on throughout the comics or does he sometimes takes it off
 

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After reading Collider's on set report of Civil War, I'm guessing the villain of The Black Panther solo movie will be
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Some great info on Chadwick preparing for the role:


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Team Iron Man from the set of Captain America: Civil War

The day we’re on set is the first day that the Black Panther costume has been on camera, and you can feel the importance in the air. Not only is it an achievement to see this character finally on the big screen, but it’s flat out one of the coolest costumes Marvel Studios has ever assembled. I’ve talked to a lot of superheroes, quite a few of them in their spandex, and this is my favorite.

“When he came out on set there were some comic book fans who were just tearing up,” Joe Russo says. “It’s a real moment for people to see this character for the first time on screen. People who grew up and championed this character as kids and was a role model for them, their favorite hero. The sense of that as a comic book fan, there was historic nature of getting him on screen for the first time.”

The costume is slick, elegant, and exudes power. T’Challa doesn’t need a shield or repulsors or even extra weapons, his hands do all the talking for him. There’s also a literal silver lining running throughout it too, accentuating not only the features of the mask and the character’s body, but outlining his claws.

The cameras are focused on a fight between two other characters, more on that later, but in the background Black Panther and The Winter Soldier trade blows. Though they’re both out of focus figures in the shot, everyone’s eyes are Black Panther. He moves with grace and ferocity. Swinging the claws with precision and intensity. He moves like an actual panther, and he’s doing that on purpose, even out of the costume.

“Chad brings a certain movement, and it’s through his own experience with the martial arts that we hadn’t really talked about,” Nate Moore says. “The first day on set we were like, ‘Oh. Well, that’s kind of interesting.’ He has a very kind of slick cat-like walk that does feel like Kabuki trying to be a cat but is very much his own thing.”


Even more than the way he moves, Boseman is bringing a cultural anchor to the character and a fresh way of speaking, despite coming from a fictional country.

“He did great research on the very cultural aspects of the character,” Anthony Russo says. “Even though it’s a fictional cultural, figuring out ways to tether it into real African culture.”

“He found a regional accent based on where Wakanda would be,” Joe Russo adds. “Just an incredible, intense amount of detail.”


Boseman’s cultural and regional research isn’t all he did to prepare for the role, he found every Black Panther comic he could get his hands on.

“I’ve just tried to read them all,” he tells us. “Not like it’s really work. Don’t get me wrong — it is work, but it’s just sort of reading them like a kid, you know? Because when you just read it like it’s work, you’re just trying to get through it. So I think it’s putting yourself in that mind frame to go through the mythology in a fun way.”

Boseman tells us there is at least one particular version of the character that he really gravitated towards with his interpretation, but he won’t tell us which. He does maintain that the countless writers that have penned T’Challa have each brought something to the character that he wants to use.

“All of the writers have come up with different aspects of who he is. So you could take different things from each one, and they don’t contradict each other necessarily. The principals and essence of who he is are still there. He’s a little cooler in some of them. In Christopher Priest’s version, he doesn’t trust anybody. All of it is good stuff to use. There’s a sense of him searching for himself in some of the ones in the ’80s, which I think is really good.”

He reveals that in between trips to the comic book store, he went to Africa to further get into character.

“I’ve gone to South Africa, gone to some places, to see some things that I think relate to the character, and let those things sort of fuel your workouts, fuel your sessions when you work on the part.”


To an outisde observer it may seem like the inclusion of Black Panther is a shoehorned attempt by Marvel to launch their next big franchise, but the character is central in the film’s plot and would still be here even if he wasn’t getting his own movie in two years.

“Panther has a great place in the story, and Wakanda has a great place in the story,” co-writer Christopher Markus says. “So that even if he wasn’t the seed of a franchise, he’d be a good character with a justified place in the movie… In a way there were times where early on where we were getting character overload, where ‘Maybe that just outta be Joe Blow from wherever, not Black Panther,’ but it’s too good. It’s just too good.”

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Dude took the role seriously and REALLY prepared for the role. Major props to him, for real :salute:
 

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Some great info on Chadwick preparing for the role:


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Team Iron Man from the set of Captain America: Civil War

The day we’re on set is the first day that the Black Panther costume has been on camera, and you can feel the importance in the air. Not only is it an achievement to see this character finally on the big screen, but it’s flat out one of the coolest costumes Marvel Studios has ever assembled. I’ve talked to a lot of superheroes, quite a few of them in their spandex, and this is my favorite.

“When he came out on set there were some comic book fans who were just tearing up,” Joe Russo says. “It’s a real moment for people to see this character for the first time on screen. People who grew up and championed this character as kids and was a role model for them, their favorite hero. The sense of that as a comic book fan, there was historic nature of getting him on screen for the first time.”

The costume is slick, elegant, and exudes power. T’Challa doesn’t need a shield or repulsors or even extra weapons, his hands do all the talking for him. There’s also a literal silver lining running throughout it too, accentuating not only the features of the mask and the character’s body, but outlining his claws.

The cameras are focused on a fight between two other characters, more on that later, but in the background Black Panther and The Winter Soldier trade blows. Though they’re both out of focus figures in the shot, everyone’s eyes are Black Panther. He moves with grace and ferocity. Swinging the claws with precision and intensity. He moves like an actual panther, and he’s doing that on purpose, even out of the costume.

“Chad brings a certain movement, and it’s through his own experience with the martial arts that we hadn’t really talked about,” Nate Moore says. “The first day on set we were like, ‘Oh. Well, that’s kind of interesting.’ He has a very kind of slick cat-like walk that does feel like Kabuki trying to be a cat but is very much his own thing.”


Even more than the way he moves, Boseman is bringing a cultural anchor to the character and a fresh way of speaking, despite coming from a fictional country.

“He did great research on the very cultural aspects of the character,” Anthony Russo says. “Even though it’s a fictional cultural, figuring out ways to tether it into real African culture.”

“He found a regional accent based on where Wakanda would be,” Joe Russo adds. “Just an incredible, intense amount of detail.”


Boseman’s cultural and regional research isn’t all he did to prepare for the role, he found every Black Panther comic he could get his hands on.

“I’ve just tried to read them all,” he tells us. “Not like it’s really work. Don’t get me wrong — it is work, but it’s just sort of reading them like a kid, you know? Because when you just read it like it’s work, you’re just trying to get through it. So I think it’s putting yourself in that mind frame to go through the mythology in a fun way.”

Boseman tells us there is at least one particular version of the character that he really gravitated towards with his interpretation, but he won’t tell us which. He does maintain that the countless writers that have penned T’Challa have each brought something to the character that he wants to use.

“All of the writers have come up with different aspects of who he is. So you could take different things from each one, and they don’t contradict each other necessarily. The principals and essence of who he is are still there. He’s a little cooler in some of them. In Christopher Priest’s version, he doesn’t trust anybody. All of it is good stuff to use. There’s a sense of him searching for himself in some of the ones in the ’80s, which I think is really good.”

He reveals that in between trips to the comic book store, he went to Africa to further get into character.

“I’ve gone to South Africa, gone to some places, to see some things that I think relate to the character, and let those things sort of fuel your workouts, fuel your sessions when you work on the part.”


To an outisde observer it may seem like the inclusion of Black Panther is a shoehorned attempt by Marvel to launch their next big franchise, but the character is central in the film’s plot and would still be here even if he wasn’t getting his own movie in two years.

“Panther has a great place in the story, and Wakanda has a great place in the story,” co-writer Christopher Markus says. “So that even if he wasn’t the seed of a franchise, he’d be a good character with a justified place in the movie… In a way there were times where early on where we were getting character overload, where ‘Maybe that just outta be Joe Blow from wherever, not Black Panther,’ but it’s too good. It’s just too good.”

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Dude took the role seriously and REALLY prepared for the role. Major props to him, for real :salute:

I did some research on Chad, I didn't know that he went to school to be a director. I think that makes him even a better actor, since he can see things from another point of view.

Chadwick Boseman - Biography - IMDb
 
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