“The idea of a Wakanda fills me with a lot of hope and a lot of passion. The idea of a nation like Wakanda that was never colonized and then it advanced itself to becoming the most technologically advanced nation in the globe. And the idea that my job is to protect that. And to retain the sovereignty and the security and longevity of that, that my foremothers and forefathers put forth .. I mean, that just got me. That just connected me so deeply to her.”
– Danai Gurira on portraying General Okoye.
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Black Panther SPOILERS on Okoye below the cut:
Another ask on the subject:
Yeah, it really doesn’t come across that way at all, and considering how good they were with the T’Challa/Nakia romance the cast and crew were MORE than capable of making Okoye/W’Kabi sing if they wanted to. This is why I suspect all the more that there was Executive Meddling involved and the cast and crew were resisting it by giving the barest lip service to a male/female romance while not playing it as one. Either that, or the decision to straightwash Okoye came too late–Joanna Robinson wrote in April 2017 about seeing the Okoye/Ayo scene–to develop a proper romance for her and W’Kabi.
Danai Gurira as Okoye & Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia in “Black Panther”
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Danai Gurira as Okoye
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