Danai Gurira is this week’s guest in this special episode, taken from our AwardsLine magazine piece entitled ‘On My Screen‘.
In the Black Panther sequel Wakanda Forever, the actress resumes her role of Okoye—a part she also played in the Avengers franchise—and here we discuss the night of the LA premiere and her feelings seeing it for the first time, including “a lot of tears” over the film’s Chadwick Boseman tribute.
A Tony-nominated playwright, Gurira first became a fan-favorite household name as Michonne in AMC’s zombie show The Walking Dead, and she tantalizingly reveals a bit of what fans can expect from her new spin-off show in which she’ll return as Michonne opposite Andrew Lincoln as Rick.
Gurira also recalls the Wakanda Forever scene she and her co-star Letitia Wright partly ad-libbed, plus rocking out in the car between takes with Wright and Lupita Nyong’o, and Martin Freeman’s freakish memory for ’90s lyrics.
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