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With Black Panther,
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we've never seen a world like this,
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populated with so many
different faces and colors.
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Women who look like me
in their resplendent glory
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were few and far between,
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and had never been
quite realized or seen before.
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I fell in love with this story,
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almost as if
I'm on the outside looking in.
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Shuri.
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As a little girl,
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as an audience member,
as a woman of color...
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...enamored with cinema and characters
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and how they can inspire onscreen.
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It is your time.
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And Black Panther is that story
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that truly has transported audiences.
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- T'CHALLA: Wakanda forever!
Wakanda forever!
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I'm unstoppable
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I'm a Porsche with no brakes
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I'm invincible
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Yeah, I win every single game
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I'm so powerful
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I don't need batteries to play
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I'm so confident
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Yeah, I'm unstoppable today
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Unstoppable today
Unstoppable today
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Unstoppable today
I'm unstoppable today
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We are home.
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LUPITA NYONG'O: The representation
of women in Black Panther...
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{\an8}...is plentiful and varied.
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And I think those things
are incredibly vital.
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We don't see enough of that in cinema.
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You are not fit to be a king!
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{\an8}The idea of being
a woman in charge of things...
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{\an8}It's embedded in the very DNA of how
this story was built from the beginning...
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Don't touch anything.
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...that these women were that powerful.
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Take her to the River Province
to prepare her for the ceremony.
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Yes, General.
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NYONG'O: We were very much
the backbone of the male superhero.
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A very capable group of women
who support him in very different ways.
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{\an8}His sister, his mother,
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{\an8}his lover, his general.
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{\an8}Typically, there's not a lot
of strong female characters in cinema.
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{\an8}And then, if you then think about
Black female characters, boy.
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That is a very shallow pool.
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But heroes get to be
whoever we define them to be.
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Black Panther was a very
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{\an8}female-driven, you know, feature,
which was amazing.
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And we wanted to make sure
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that the female superheroes
stand next to the men
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and they're equally badass.
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This is empowering
for so many people
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{\an8}to see on a huge screen
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{\an8}Black women who are really powerful.
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{\an8}Women are beacons of strength.
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{\an8}When you see yourself
represented in all your power,
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you're reassured
that we're okay in the world.
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Women, Black women,
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can be represented
in so many different ways.
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- Hold tight!
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We can take on
many different roles very powerfully.
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And action!
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NYONG'O: It was all of us coming together
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to represent powerful women.
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For centuries, we have kept
our people safe.
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And doing it with such ownership
and such passion.
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Set.
Action.
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We're so excited
to work with one another,
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{\an8}and I think it's something about
the strength of these women.
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When I go to work,
it's my normal
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that I have all these female colleagues.
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{\an8}And we learn from each other,
we see each other,
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{\an8}and we have the feeling
that we are represented.
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And together, we are great
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because we know what our strengths are,
and we support each other.
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{\an8}In Black Panther,
there wasn't just one superhero.
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The Dora Milaje is a tribe of them.
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{\an8}The Dora Milaje
is an all-female guard and warrior unit.
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{\an8}You know, they're kind of like,
um, the Secret Service,
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{\an8}if you crossed them with Navy SEALs.
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- Come on!
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To have the Dora Milaje
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as a representation
of the army for Wakanda,
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as the protector of the Queen and King,
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that says so much.
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Regardless of what gender you are,
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you can do anything.
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The Dora,
they're just so gorgeous and powerful.
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{\an8}They look amazing on camera
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{\an8}when they're together
and when they're all doing their moves.
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{\an8}The idea of stepping into
a role like the Dora Milaje,
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with these women being the rescuers,
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that, of course, was palpably appealing.
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NYONG'O: In the comic book,
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the role of the Dora Milaje is quite akin
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to kind of the motif
of pimps and hoes, unfortunately.
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They're very scantily clothed.
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They only speak to their king.
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And that was something
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that Ryan really wanted to get away from,
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and give the Dora Milaje agency.
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They were not in heels,
they were not in bathing suit tops,
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and some of the comics
do present them in that way.
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And so, there's an evolution
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of how they are in the comic book
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and how they've evolved on the screen.
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This is how it should be
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when you're in an equal society,
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{\an8}where the women are equal to the men.
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Dora Milaje means
"the adorned ones."
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Okoye is the general
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and she's the only Dora Milaje
adorned in gold.
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The other Dora wear silver.
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And so, Okoye represents
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great power and strength of women,
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and the dedication
to her country, Wakanda.
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Okoye is comfortable
with being a leader in a man's world.
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{\an8}She believes with all her soul
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{\an8}in this nation, Wakanda,
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and would very willingly
give her life for it.
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Wakanda was not colonized.
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It was able to nurture itself
and, as a result,
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became the most technologically
advanced nation on the planet.
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So that made it very easy
to slip into her skin...
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Something's entered the atmosphere.
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...because the idea of protecting that
really makes sense to me.
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I'm very vigilant about making sure,
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I guess, that my life is being led by me.
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I was born in a tiny town in Iowa
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called Grinnell where
my dad was a professor.
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My parents, they were academics
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and they gave me and my siblings
all Shona names,
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Shona being the language
of my nation, Zimbabwe.
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Danai means "to love one another,"
or "to be in love,"
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based on the fact
that I was born on Valentine's Day.
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I didn't know about this
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until my mom sat me down and told me.
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I just knew my name to be Dede
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because no one could
pronounce Danai properly.
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And as a kid, you're just looking
to fit in as best as possible.
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When I was around five or six,
we moved to Zimbabwe,
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very soon after it had
just come out from colonial rule,
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and moved from being called "Rhodesia,"
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after a white man
called Cecil John Rhodes,
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to being called "Zimbabwe,"
which means "house of stone."
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I was in schooling systems
that were not prone to saying
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a lot of Shona names.
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When I was in high school,
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I went to a place called
the Dominican Convent.
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It's an all-girls Catholic school
founded by German nuns.
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And one day, I just went off
on a lot of white girls in the class
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about not saying African names right,
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and I started to use
my own name as an example.
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And rage of the fact
that my name was not spoken properly,
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even in my own country,
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became real.
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And I think that really solidified for me
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that Danai is the name
I needed to be called by.
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It's a defining moment.
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I am loyal to that throne,
no matter who sits upon it!
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What are you loyal to?
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NYONG'O: Okoye is steeped
in her loyalty to the throne.
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{\an8}She is, like, made of that stuff.
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{\an8} All her DNA is about that job.
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She's a nationalist.
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She believes in the borders of Wakanda,
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in them being independent of the world.
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And Nakia challenges that ideal.
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This man is
a foreign intelligence operative.
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How do we justify
bringing him into our borders?
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He took a bullet for me.
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That was his choice.
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But what I love about
the relationship between Nakia and Okoye
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is that the respect is always felt.
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These women respect each other
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for being very good at their approach,
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and their goal is the same,
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which is to protect and prosper
their nation and their people.
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I am a spy with no army.
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Help me overthrow him.
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Nakia is a very free spirit,
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{\an8}doesn't always go by the book.
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{\an8}She is skilled like the Doras,
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but she has something which is great,
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because she says,
"I want to help everyone."
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T'Challa, no!
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This one's just a boy.
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We meet Nakia in action.
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Immediately, you're drawn
to her, her physicality,
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{\an8}but it's also the compassion in her eyes.
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Traditionally, spies are untrustworthy,
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people who look out
for their own self-interest,
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but she is incredibly altruistic.
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Thank you.
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Yes.
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And in some ways,
she is the conscience of Wakanda.
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I've seen too many in need
just to turn a blind eye.
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I can't be happy here
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knowing that there's people out there
who have nothing.
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Nakia is very much a part of innovation,
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a part of how do we change,
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how do we modernize,
how do we move forward,
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how do we break rules
that need to be broken?
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We could provide aid
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and access to technology
and refuge to those who need it.
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Other countries do it.
We could do it better.
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NYONG'O: Nakia is very passionate,
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fiery, empathetic, the lone wolf.
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She goes on her own path.
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She challenges the status-quo,
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and I love that about her,
and I definitely share that.
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The child version of Lupita
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was very imaginative.
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Growing up in Kenya,
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I played a lot on my own.
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I liked to climb trees
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and I spent a lot of time
making up worlds.
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And I realized
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I just enjoyed the worlds I made up
more than the real world.
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I remember when I was in high school,
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there was a rule that we weren't allowed
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to dye our hair blond or red.
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So I dyed it blue.
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So I identify with that spirit in Nakia,
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the one who asks,
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"Okay, why are things the way they are?"
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When I was introduced to Wakanda,
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I felt immediately protective of it.
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Because it's made of dreams.
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Because Wakanda is the only African nation
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that has never had
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the imposition of colonialism.
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It has been able to self-actualize.
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For me, what we've imbued in it
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is a nostalgia that never was.
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And you see a country
that is very forward-thinking,
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but one that is also
very embracing of tradition.
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And growing up as an African,
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I found myself grappling
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with this idea of tradition and modernity.
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It's a real dichotomy
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that exists on the African continent.
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There's an old world
and then there's an accelerated world
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that has almost forgotten,
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or is rejecting, that old world.
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And in Wakanda,
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this tension exists
with the Shuri character
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who finds herself
in that extreme corner of innovation
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where she is really questioning
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the validity of the traditional ways.
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- My King!
- Stop it.
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This corset
is really uncomfortable,
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so could we all
just wrap it up and go home?
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Yes!
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With tradition versus innovation,
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Shuri very much
over-indexes on innovation.
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But she's very self-assured
as a character,
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which a lot of women
and, and young girls respond to.
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Why do you have your toes out in my lab?
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I wanted to go old-school
for my first day.
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I bet the Elders loved that.
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{\an8}Shuri is bold in her choices
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{\an8}about science and technology
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{\an8}and creation.
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She's always thinking
of solutions to help her country.
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I'm here for the EMP beads.
I've developed an update.
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Update? No, it worked perfectly.
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Just because something works
doesn't mean that it cannot be improved.
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Shuri represents the future
in so many ways.
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{\an8}She has these hopes and dreams,
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{\an8}and she's also out there doing it.
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The nanites absorb
the kinetic energy
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and hold it in place for redistribution.
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Shuri has this youthful exuberance
about STEM,
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science, technology, engineering and math,
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and how she uses STEM
to support the country.
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She is intelligent beyond her years.
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Look at your suit.
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You've been taking bullets,
charging it up with kinetic energy.
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Yes, she's strong.
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I'm going as fast as I can!
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Yes, she can be powerful.
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Just because of her age,
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people can easily underestimate her.
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But she has this lack of limitation.
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There's no ceilings on Shuri.
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In its raw form,
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Vibranium is too dangerous
to be transported at that speed.
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Shuri's young, but she's gifted
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{\an8}and she's passionate
about being this science head, this geek.
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Shuri's just knocking down
all those stereotypes of, like,
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oh, if a girl's good at sciences,
she's not cool.
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Strike it.
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Not that hard, genius!
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{\an8}A lot of the technology
that Shuri is responsible for
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{\an8}is all about the evolution of tradition
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in a way that it is evolved in technology.
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The entire suit sits
within the teeth of the necklace.
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{\an8}Everything comes from Shuri.
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When I play Ayo,
everything that protects me,
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the weapons that I use,
the Dora Milaje uniform,
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all starts in her lab.
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The first time that Ayo is introduced
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was in Captain America: Civil War.
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I remember when the movie came out,
and people came and said,
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"Are you the woman in the movie?"
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Move. Or you will be moved.
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And I said, like, "Yes,"
but I didn't really know what it meant.
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Now it's different.
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Florence is amazing.
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{\an8}She had gotten a very small part.
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{\an8}She had so much presence onscreen
in just a few lines
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that gave us the inspiration
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to then bring her into a bigger world
and a bigger role.
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Ayo, the king!
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Ayo is someone that,
when she grew up...
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...wanted to become a Dora Milaje.
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You have to make
a specific choice to join them.
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You don't get born into the sisterhood.
You have to work for it.
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But growing up myself,
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I wasn't used to seeing
women protecting men.
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And in Wakanda, that is just such a given.
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You can become everything
that you want to become.
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But this is a concept that is
very foreign to a lot of people
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because sometimes, if it's not there,
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you can't imagine it.
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I was born in Uganda,
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but grew up in Germany.
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Back then, we didn't have
that many Black actresses,
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and I noticed after a certain age that
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I missed people that I could see
on the screen that look like me.
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But then I went to the theater
and I saw people that looked like me
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and I thought, like,
"That's what I want to do."
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So that's the reason
why I became a performer.
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I studied singing, acting and dancing.
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And at some point, I transitioned from
dancing, learning martial arts.
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My mom taught me from an early age
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that you have to stay who you are.
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It doesn't matter what people
try to tell you who you are.
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I wouldn't be here,
doing what I'm doing now,
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if she would have restricted me.
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My mom was a nurse...
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...and she worked in the emergency room,
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so she had to deal with death a lot.
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And from an early age on,
she would always talk about,
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"Today, somebody died at work."
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And because of that,
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it was always normal for us
that people go and that's okay.
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She taught me, "Instead of focusing
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"that the person isn't there anymore,
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"focus on what the person has achieved."
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And that is something I am so grateful
that she taught me
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because that is so in me
that I don't break.
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The minute somebody
gives you the freedom to do something
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and you notice how great you can become,
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you want to achieve more,
you want to give more.
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And this is just like Ayo.
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She can put herself aside,
doesn't need to be in the foreground,
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but when she has to lead a mission,
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she's able to go out and get the job done.
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Florence's character
and the Dora altogether
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are a beautiful metaphor
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for the women
behind the scenes on this film.
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It was amazing.
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I had never been on a set
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with more women in positions of power.
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Get back in the path
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like we did earlier this morning
for our first shot.
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The film is about
a lot of female characters
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{\an8}and we would not have been doing
the film any favors
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{\an8}by not opening ourselves up to
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{\an8}very talented female crew members.
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There's no reason
for it to be a boy's club,
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and I think Black Panther
kind of proves that.
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The director,
Ryan Coogler, always had
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this vision of strong women
behind the scenes.
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We were telling a story for
a diverse world of men and women.
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And so, in order to do that, we need
all those voices at the table.
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Remember, no matter what,
block off when we call cut.
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Ryan's compassion is infectious
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{\an8}and we want to rally around him
and support his ideas.
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{\an8}So, women tend to do that.
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{\an8}We're like Ryan's Dora.
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{\an8}We're here to protect the vision.
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{\an8}It's quite empowering to have
a lot of women around you.
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There's a sense of nurturing of the story
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because we're able to give emotionally
in a lot of different ways.
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And I think that that just enhances
what you're seeing onscreen.
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Hannah Beachler
was kinda like our major workhorse
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in researching Wakanda.
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{\an8}You see it in the architecture
and the production design of, of the sets.
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And action!
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- Come home, Nakia.
- I'm right here.
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Stay.
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NYONG'O: The first few times I walked onto
the set of Black Panther,
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{\an8}I just remember getting goosebumps
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because it represented
what was so beautiful about Africa.
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Everything just seemed so purposeful.
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And I think that kind of detail is
what made this movie quite special.
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There are times that I'd come
on set and I'd be like,
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{\an8}"Oh, God. You don't understand.
This is gonna be amazing."
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{\an8}Like, you just see, like,
you know, Hannah's set.
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As the production designer,
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I wanted to bring a different light to
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{\an8}what had previously been called
the Dark Continent
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{\an8}for so many decades.
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My father was an architect
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and taught me early on
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that you really need to
understand the land
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before you can put a building on it.
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So I applied that gem to Wakanda.
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We travelled to South Africa
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for research.
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We were pretty much all over
the Sentinel Mountains and Lesotho.
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Dug into the geography,
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the people, the traditions.
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And that's where I became inspired by
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an idea of a society that's based in
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tradition, community,
family and ritual.
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I created this 500-page bible,
the "Wakandan Bible," as we call it.
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It tells us what their timeline is,
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from the Bronze Age to the current day,
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comparing Wakanda's evolution
with the rest of the world.
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A map of the country
and of their capital, Golden City,
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their traditions, religion.
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What was their trade?
What was their economy?
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What do they eat?
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What is their language?
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Dora Milaje!
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{\an8}The language that they speak
in Wakanda is Xhosa,
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{\an8}which is a language of South Africa.
433
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I was born and raised in Johannesburg,
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so this film was really,
really important to me.
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I basically referred to it
as "my soul movie."
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My friends in South Africa said,
when they started speaking Xhosa,
437
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there were gasps in the theater.
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People couldn't believe, like,
"Our language is on the screen,"
439
00:25:37,912 --> 00:25:41,666
and that meant something to people,
to, to, to feel, like, seen that way.
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I absolutely worshipped
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every single one of
the female characters in this film,
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and I looked at every single scene
in Black Panther from the perspective of
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"Is it being true to them?"
444
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And he goes there.
445
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And so I went to Ryan about
the ending scene
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where the Dora Milaje are
surrounded by the Border Tribe.
447
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As it was originally shot,
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the Jabari male warriors come
and rescue them.
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And I said, "I feel that undercuts
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"so much of what we spent
the entire film building up."
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And he agreed with me
and he worked miracles to
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create a new character called
the female Jabari warrior.
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And they went into additional photography,
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got a new shot,
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and now, the very first person to
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power through the force field
and save the Dora Milaje
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is a female Jabari warrior.
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And it served our ladies right.
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The Indigenous tribes
of Wakanda were inspired by
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{\an8}several different real tribes of Africa.
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As the costume designer,
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I approach my work from
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the point of view of
responsibility to the culture.
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And people need to see that more in film.
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{\an8}Ruth is just absolutely
bar none brilliant.
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I know so much more who I am as Ramonda
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when I put the costumes on.
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The jewelry, the headdress,
the embroidery.
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Ruth wanted to do it right, so she would
talk to people on the continent about
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the processes by which
they make their clothing...
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...and integrate them into her costumes.
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Like the Dora Milaje with their arm rings,
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their neck rings that come from
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the Ndebele people of South Africa.
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The Lesotho blankets
that we made into shields.
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Those pieces retrained the eye
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to a new form of beauty and appreciation.
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This movie got to celebrate
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a ton of different cultures
from across the continent.
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The African country
and African women are so well represented.
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{\an8}They have tattoos and they have scars,
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{\an8}and they have lots of hair, braids,
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and even have no hair.
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For the Dora Milaje,
some of us didn't have hair, anyway,
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00:28:31,461 --> 00:28:34,213
but it was really just this idea that
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{\an8}"What's your definition of femininity?
'Cause this is mine."
487
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{\an8}You know what I mean?
And I'm good with this.
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Bast willing, this will go quickly
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and I can get
this ridiculous thing off my head.
490
00:28:44,265 --> 00:28:47,769
The idea of "I don't wanna
wear hair on my head.
491
00:28:47,769 --> 00:28:48,978
"This is ridiculous."
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I found so much enjoyment in it
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and freedom in it, and power in it.
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00:29:05,453 --> 00:29:08,164
And then we were deciding
what tattoo to put on.
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00:29:09,665 --> 00:29:11,793
I had a lot of tattoos
on, on my head for about a week.
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And then it was like,
"Oh, my God. It's her fighter helmet.
497
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:18,508
"Forget it. This is it."
498
00:29:19,509 --> 00:29:21,511
I want my tattoo. I want my bald head.
499
00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:27,558
It's a strong,
bold statement.
500
00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:31,145
{\an8}It's just,
it's power and strength in the look.
501
00:29:34,190 --> 00:29:35,399
With this film,
502
00:29:35,399 --> 00:29:38,528
we're able to see women
owning their power.
503
00:29:38,528 --> 00:29:40,780
Drop your weapon!
504
00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:42,573
{\an8}And I think that's very inspiring.
505
00:29:43,074 --> 00:29:44,951
Wakanda forever!
506
00:29:53,793 --> 00:29:57,129
We're excited because somebody
that looks like me is a superhero.
507
00:29:57,630 --> 00:30:01,092
I've never gone to a theater
to see a film like this before,
508
00:30:01,092 --> 00:30:03,970
so I just really needed to go all out.
509
00:30:07,348 --> 00:30:10,309
You saw those people
in the movie theaters, like,
510
00:30:10,309 --> 00:30:11,811
celebrating and dancing.
511
00:30:15,690 --> 00:30:17,984
People saw themselves onscreen.
512
00:30:18,985 --> 00:30:21,904
{\an8}People wanted to rejoice.
We were so ready for it.
513
00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:26,075
Hearing about
people feeling inspired,
514
00:30:26,075 --> 00:30:29,620
going to the theater and just seeing
every single viewing for hours and hours,
515
00:30:29,620 --> 00:30:30,997
it was just so magical.
516
00:30:35,376 --> 00:30:39,422
{\an8}It touched me and made me feel
very purposeful as an actor.
517
00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:43,384
Seeing what we made
was overwhelming
518
00:30:43,384 --> 00:30:45,928
because it connected people.
519
00:30:47,722 --> 00:30:50,516
We are coming from these
different places, but we're still one.
520
00:30:52,643 --> 00:30:55,396
Think about how impactful
that was, not just for us,
521
00:30:55,396 --> 00:30:59,108
people that belong to our
respective communities of color.
522
00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:02,528
{\an8}But even women that don't,
523
00:31:03,112 --> 00:31:06,115
{\an8}and never even realized
that something like that
524
00:31:06,115 --> 00:31:07,992
{\an8}had never been given to us.
525
00:31:07,992 --> 00:31:09,160
Yay!
526
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,662
We were never told
that this could be possible.
527
00:31:13,706 --> 00:31:16,000
NYONG'O: Why do we need Black superheroes?
528
00:31:17,335 --> 00:31:18,920
Why not?
529
00:31:19,670 --> 00:31:21,005
I mean, it's a no-brainer.
530
00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:22,882
There's Black people in this world
531
00:31:22,882 --> 00:31:24,926
and there's room in our imaginations
532
00:31:24,926 --> 00:31:26,886
to imagine ourselves as superheroes.
533
00:31:28,304 --> 00:31:31,098
{\an8}We don't even begin to know
534
00:31:31,098 --> 00:31:35,102
{\an8}the level of what these films
can do for children.
535
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,659
{\an8}My name is Vianna Robbins
and I'm 11 years old.
536
00:31:49,659 --> 00:31:52,954
{\an8}My name's Amel Robbins
and I am ten years old.
537
00:31:52,954 --> 00:31:54,246
My name is Darian Robbins.
538
00:31:55,498 --> 00:31:58,292
I'm an environmental
project engineer with NASA.
539
00:31:59,043 --> 00:32:02,964
{\an8}Being an engineer myself,
I was really impressed with Shuri.
540
00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:04,507
Yes!
541
00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:06,175
When you go into her lab
542
00:32:06,175 --> 00:32:08,761
and seeing all the stuff she's working on.
543
00:32:08,761 --> 00:32:12,139
Just the breadth of her knowledge,
I mean, that just blew my mind.
544
00:32:14,558 --> 00:32:17,353
The experience for my family,
and particularly my daughters,
545
00:32:17,353 --> 00:32:18,771
with seeing Black Panther,
546
00:32:18,771 --> 00:32:21,232
it was something that
they'd never seen before,
547
00:32:21,232 --> 00:32:23,317
you know, powerful representation
of, of women onscreen.
548
00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:26,195
What my daughters loved most
about the film,
549
00:32:26,195 --> 00:32:28,614
was the women taking control,
and being in command,
550
00:32:28,614 --> 00:32:30,616
and just doing adventurous stuff.
551
00:32:30,866 --> 00:32:31,867
Daddy!
552
00:32:33,411 --> 00:32:35,204
- Okay.
- Are you sick?
553
00:32:36,163 --> 00:32:38,207
My girls are very adventurous themselves.
554
00:32:39,041 --> 00:32:40,376
They dance,
555
00:32:41,377 --> 00:32:42,837
do tae kwon do.
556
00:32:44,547 --> 00:32:45,756
They ride bikes.
557
00:32:45,756 --> 00:32:47,800
They have a zest for life.
558
00:32:49,593 --> 00:32:50,678
High knees.
559
00:32:51,804 --> 00:32:52,805
Good.
560
00:32:52,805 --> 00:32:57,018
My favorite character
from Black Panther is Okoye.
561
00:33:00,062 --> 00:33:05,234
I like how Okoye fights for
whoever sits on the throne,
562
00:33:05,234 --> 00:33:06,861
no matter who sits on it.
563
00:33:07,862 --> 00:33:10,990
She's like a warrior whenever, wherever.
564
00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:14,785
And she'll get the job done.
565
00:33:15,786 --> 00:33:18,372
Y'all stick together like
the Dora Milaje, right?
566
00:33:20,124 --> 00:33:23,044
You'll come together like a family
to protect one another.
567
00:33:24,045 --> 00:33:25,546
That makes my heart full.
568
00:33:29,842 --> 00:33:34,889
I like when Shuri's in the lab
with the other woman,
569
00:33:34,889 --> 00:33:39,101
working on technology for Wakanda.
570
00:33:43,105 --> 00:33:45,941
My favorite character is Nakia.
571
00:33:48,194 --> 00:33:52,615
I like how she fights for
people outside of her country
572
00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:56,285
to help those who are struggling.
573
00:33:59,872 --> 00:34:02,792
I think it's also inspiring
to other people
574
00:34:02,792 --> 00:34:04,960
to see women superheroes
575
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,048
because they might not believe
they can do something.
576
00:34:09,590 --> 00:34:11,884
But they watch Black Panther
577
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:15,096
and all of a sudden,
they believe they can do it.
578
00:34:16,597 --> 00:34:19,350
They start reaching for their goal.
579
00:34:28,984 --> 00:34:33,155
We're living in a time where
we're all recognizing
580
00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:36,200
that these stories need to be
told about women,
581
00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:39,495
a wonderful and rich universe...
582
00:34:41,247 --> 00:34:42,665
...filled with female heroes.
583
00:34:44,542 --> 00:34:47,336
But there's still
a lot of work to do.
584
00:34:48,337 --> 00:34:52,174
Even though people are always saying
after the Oscars,
585
00:34:52,174 --> 00:34:54,093
{\an8}"This isn't a game changer."
586
00:34:55,302 --> 00:34:58,264
Ruth Carter
is the first African American woman
587
00:34:58,264 --> 00:35:01,100
to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design.
588
00:35:01,767 --> 00:35:04,061
And Hannah Beachler is
the first Black woman
589
00:35:04,061 --> 00:35:07,273
to be nominated and win
for Best Production Design.
590
00:35:10,109 --> 00:35:12,236
People said,
"Oh, you broke the glass ceiling."
591
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,327
But I'm not interested in
the glass ceiling.
592
00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:23,664
I'm interested in the brick wall.
593
00:35:25,374 --> 00:35:27,168
Because if I take down the brick wall,
594
00:35:28,002 --> 00:35:29,420
I bring down the building.
595
00:35:36,427 --> 00:35:38,137
So we can redesign it.
596
00:35:41,807 --> 00:35:43,559
And that's the only way to go forward.
597
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,360
{\an8}Black Panther was not just a movie.
598
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,445
{\an8}It changed lives.
599
00:35:54,445 --> 00:35:56,697
{\an8}It changed how people
thought about themselves.
600
00:35:58,157 --> 00:36:01,160
{\an8}Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
601
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:04,413
Wakanda forever!
602
00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:08,751
I had no anticipation
603
00:36:08,751 --> 00:36:12,713
of the impact that it would have
on people of the diaspora
604
00:36:12,713 --> 00:36:16,926
to just celebrate ourselves
and who we are, what our heritage is.
605
00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:27,311
It's important to be able
to recognize yourself.
606
00:36:27,311 --> 00:36:28,771
And with this movie,
607
00:36:28,771 --> 00:36:31,357
{\an8}a lot of people could watch it and think,
608
00:36:31,357 --> 00:36:35,110
{\an8}"Wow. People that look like me
are presented
609
00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:37,196
"and we can be superheroes, too."
610
00:36:39,949 --> 00:36:42,076
Wakanda forever!
611
00:36:44,286 --> 00:36:45,371
I love it.
612
00:36:45,371 --> 00:36:48,123
{\an8}The evolution that needs to come
has to come
613
00:36:48,123 --> 00:36:50,584
{\an8}from the understanding
that we have to step into
614
00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:52,378
{\an8}what we haven't seen before
615
00:36:52,378 --> 00:36:54,964
because a lot of the old models
are based in exclusion.
616
00:36:56,173 --> 00:36:58,342
And then in Wakanda Forever,
617
00:36:58,342 --> 00:37:01,345
we see the representation
of female characters
618
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,432
in so many more different ways.
619
00:37:06,517 --> 00:37:10,562
It's the continuation
of the strength of the female warrior.
620
00:37:11,563 --> 00:37:15,693
Her voice is strong and unsilent.
621
00:37:15,693 --> 00:37:20,239
I am Queen of the most
powerful nation in the world!
622
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,157
{\an8}It's a beautiful thing to see.
623
00:37:25,035 --> 00:37:28,038
NYONG'O: Why are superheroes
so popular in this world?
624
00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:31,583
I think it's because they possess
625
00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:36,797
powers and perspectives that we aspire to.
626
00:37:38,757 --> 00:37:44,096
And everybody deserves to exist
in imaginative spaces.