Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, opened up about how Chadwick Boseman‘s death almost led to him leaving the industry.
The 36-year-old director worked with Chadwick on the 2018 entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
He revealed in a recent interview that he almost left Hollywood after Chadwick passed away in August 2020. Click inside to learn why Ryan Coogler was thinking about leaving Hollywood… “I was at a point when I was like, ‘I’m walking away from this business.’ I didn’t know if I could make another movie period, [let alone] another Black Panther movie, because it hurt a lot,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I was like, ‘Man, how could I open myself up to feeling like this again?’” Ryan revealed what helped him decide to continue his career: “poring over a lot of our conversations that we had, towards what I realized was the end of his life.
I decided that it made more sense to keep going.” He took on directorial duties for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which premieres on November 11.
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