Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
I honestly would be shocked if they didn't offer her the role. That would be really weird.
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I honestly would be shocked if they didn't offer her the role. That would be really weird.
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
If Lupita becomes the love interest and plays american Monica Lynne, I don't know the point of that?
I assume she was gonna be a African character since she is African herself, but they gonna cast her as a black american jazz singer?(that is if her role is a love interest)
Teyonah Parris will be a better choice to play Monica Lynne for black panther love interest
I have said this MULTIPLE times in the past lol.
Teyonah Parris and/or Nicole Behari would be SLAM DUNK casting for the love interest.
HOWEVER
I am not entirely angered at the prospect of Lupita being the love interest IF they are going to go about it the right way..
1). Lupita would NOT be cast as any incarnation of Monica Lynne or any foreign born character. She would have to be Wakandan and she would HAVE to be formidable in her own right.
2). Cast her as either a high ranking Dora Milaje who T'Challa comes to value as a respected ally and eventually fall in love with. Basically the love story would be the reverse of Thor, where Lady Sif was obviously his perfect match but the movie followed the comics Thor/Jane Foster shipping
. Or you can cast her as a Wakandan scientist who invents a lot of Black Panther's high tech gear and weapons. Whichever they go with, she HAS to play a crucial role within Wakansa and T'Challa's life OUTSIDE of the love interest3). Cast a younger unknown African actress to
Play Shuri. If they signed Lupita as Shuri right away then fans would be expecting such a high profile actres yo immediately take center stage, which would come at the cost of further developing Chadwicke as T'Challa. If they cast an unknown that can GROW into role (as Shuri herself did in the Comics) then it would make sense within the larger narrative. Shuri probably shouldn't have the huge of a role until the second Panther film either way.
TMNT4000
Superstar
I found a tweet sums up my whole reaction about this news
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
T. Parris would be cool but I'm rooting for Regina Hall as Monica Lynne she could add some credible comic relief and she can do serious roles as well.
Twitter's reaction to Lupita's casting was like:
Il telling y'all it CAN be done well. Coogler would just have make sure to check off all the right boxes to justify this particular casting against the popular vote
TMNT4000
Superstar
My problem with casting Lupita as love interest is that I feel she to much mature to play that role, I feel she be cast as Black panther wiser adult instead of romance.
I feel Black Panther love interest has to be young and energetic in my opinion
Lupita feels like a older sister than a love interest for Black Panther
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
Most def, Ryan Coogler will do what it do...I just can't get hyped to Monica Lynne. I hope the movie changes my mind on that.
AnonymityX1000
Veteran
I heard it the first time. not necessary.
Regina Hall is a talented actress, I'm a big fan.
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
I have said this MULTIPLE times in the past lol.
Teyonah Parris and/or Nicole Behari would be SLAM DUNK casting for the love interest.
HOWEVER
I am not entirely angered at the prospect of Lupita being the love interest IF they are going to go about it the right way..
1). Lupita would NOT be cast as any incarnation of Monica Lynne or any foreign born character. She would have to be Wakandan and she would HAVE to be formidable in her own right.
2). Cast her as either a high ranking Dora Milaje who T'Challa comes to value as a respected ally and eventually fall in love with. Basically the love story would be the reverse of Thor, where Lady Sif was obviously his perfect match but the movie followed the comics Thor/Jane Foster shipping
3). Cast a younger unknown African actress to
Play Shuri. If they signed Lupita as Shuri right away then fans would be expecting such a high profile actres yo immediately take center stage, which would come at the cost of further developing Chadwicke as T'Challa. If they cast an unknown that can GROW into role (as Shuri herself did in the Comics) then it would make sense within the larger narrative. Shuri probably shouldn't have the huge of a role until the second Panther film either way.
I think she can. We have already been introduced to T'Challa so that issue is a non-factor. Not to mention, this is still T'Challa's movie, so he'll be getting the vast majority of the shine anyway.
The Cap series was able to introduce Falcon and Winter Soldier and even have Black Widow and Nick Fury in the same movie, and things went great, while still being a Cap movie, through and through. No reason why the BP films can't do the same.
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Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
I heard it the first time. not necessary.
Regina Hall is a talented actress, I'm a big fan.
And you gon hear it Everytime, as it is the utmost necessity.
Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
It was Cap's 2nd solo movie tho. Only Nick Fury appeared in the first movie as a cameo.....and Bucky pre-WW.
Lupita is younger than Chadwicke breh..
For this to work out she CANT be cast as Monica Lynne PERIOD. She'd have to be an alternative take on an existing Dora Milaje or a brand new Wakandan character.
Even with Boseman already introduced you STILL need to introduce the nation of Wakanda, the central villian, establish Black Panther's power set and the Heart-Shaped herb, and possibly even Bast as a spiritual/mystic entity. Introducing Shuri is crucial, but giving her an entire arc worthy of her character whole T'Challa deals with whatever the crisis turns out to be, PLUS setting up T'Challa's arc within Infinity War (which has been confirmed by Fiege) might be a little more than can be reasonably handled. I'm not saying don't introduce Shuri, I'm saying that her role within the first film will more than likely be smaller than befitting a star like Lupita
Birnin Zana
Honorary Wakandan
The key here again, is that everyone know who's who T'Challa is already. They even know who his father is and what country he's from. Thus, there isn't much pressure to make a large intro this time around.
Also, it still doesn't prevent Shuri from having a good role in the film. They still introduced a lot of people in Cap's first film: Cap, Bucky, Peggy Carter, Red skull, Gabe Jones, Hydra, and so on.
So it def can be done. This is still going to be T'Challa's movie anyway, and he will be the lead, no question. However, there won't be the need for a major intro this time around, as most viewer have already seen him in Cap: Civil war.
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