CBR managed to nab Chadwick Boseman at an LA press event for some quotes regarding the massive announcement from last week that he'd be stepping into the role of T'Challa/Black Panther in Marvel's
Captain America: Civil War, and then again when he takes the lead in a solo outing for the character. This is the first time we've heard anything from him since that announcement, and to say he seems very exited would be understatement. Though the
Black Panther movie is obviously a huge deal and will indeed be Marvel Studio's first project to feature an African American actor in a leading role, Boseman is quick to point out that Wesley Snipes brought another Marvel Comics character, Blade, to the screen in a series of movies many years before -- and that Anthony Mackie's Falcon also played a prominent role in
Captain America: The Winter Soldier. He does, however, say that the studio plan to take a different approach with this particular movie.
"The reaction on stage at the El Capitan Theater was, like, amazing. The way that Marvel set it up and wanted to surprise people with it, it was one of the best surprises that I've ever been a part of. I've heard from a lot of my friends, and a lot of people I don't know have congratulated me -- but I've actually not heard a lot from other people because I went away. I tried to get away from everything just to ground myself. But it's been amazing. I'm so excited! I'm ready to start right now, and they're telling me, 'Slow down a little bit!'" It's never been done....It's been done before in different ways, but it's never been done exactly like this. Wesley Snipes also had his own franchise -- you have to acknowledge that. You have to acknowledge what [Anthony] Mackie's doing [with the Falcon]. But this is a little different in the way that Marvel is presenting it, so it's amazing."
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