Black Panther director Ryan Coogler says sequel Wakanda Forever is watched at home "so much more than the other Panther" for a simple reason: "People may be watching when they want to feel something specific"

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Ryan Coogler reflects on Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has reflected on making Wakanda Forever after the tragic loss of Chadwick Boseman – and shared why he thinks more people watch the sequel at home than the first movie.

"I learned that I was more resilient than I give myself credit for – I'll say that was the biggest thing," he told The Hollywood Reporter of the experience. "And that movie gets watched at home so much more than the other Panther did. I think about that: People may be watching when they want to feel something specific."

"I would look around to people who had been making movies as long as I had been alive, bro, sometimes longer, and they would say: 'I've never seen anything like this,'" Coogler reflected. "We had to work from the place of being brokenhearted, or else it wouldn't have got done… Me and Chad were getting closer, so it was like a wound to the heart. It was like somebody had taken the sun away and we were all these planets floating."

Molly Edwards
Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.

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