While speaking to BlackFilm about his new movie Draft Day, actor Chadwick Boseman, whom played legendary Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson in the 2013's biographical movie 42, was quizzed about the rumors and possibility of him playing T'Challa in Marvel Studios forthcoming Black Panther movie.
BlackFilm: Could you see yourself playing Black Panther?
Chadwick Boseman: "I could see myself doing anything in terms of comic book, action, or anything like that. Black Panther, in particular, I’m not going to answer that."
BlackFilm: If not, then which character?
Chadwick Boseman: "Let me put to you this way. If it’s character driven, I’ll do it. As long as it’s character driven, I would love to do it. If it’s just you in a suit and you with powers, then it doesn’t interest me, no matter how big it is. As long as it’s character driven, I’m totally into it. If they could figure out how to do Black Panther and make it fit the original or adapt to the times we’re in now and be new and innovative and be character driven and has the sense of what the comic book is supposed to be, but not bound by it, then yes, of course, I would want to do it."
Sounds promising. With a good actor able to give a strong performance, whose priority is a character driven script, and with Marvels current acclaim for Captain America: The Winter Soldier it looks like the Black Panther movie should start amassing its crew and cast very soon.
