Letitia Wright.Photo: Dave Benett/Getty Images
Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverstarLetitia Wrightis recovering from minor injuries sustained during filming.
The 27-year-old actress, who plays Shuri in the franchise, was hospitalized after an incident with a stunt rig.
According to Deadline, the actress was filming in Boston when she was hurt. Primary filming for the movie is happening in Atlanta, where most Marvel projects are filmed.
She hassince been released from the hospital,Entertainment Weeklyreported. The incident isn’t expected to have an impact on the film’s production schedule.
Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright inBlack Panther(2018).Marvel/Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock
Wakanda Foreveris the sequel to 2018’sBlack Pantherand is the first movie in the franchise following Chadwick Boseman’s deatha year ago from colon cancer. He was 43.
The movie is set to focus on the world of Wakanda and brings back Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, Florence Kasumba and Angela Bassett. Ryan Coogler also returns to direct.
During Disney’s Investor Day last December, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that in honor of Boseman,his titular role as the Wakandan superhero would not be recast.
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Instead, the film “will explore the world of Wakanda & the richcharacters introduced in the first film,” Feige said.
Nyong’o, 38, spoke about the upcoming Marvel film in an interview withYahoo! Entertainmentwhile promoting her new YouTube Original animated seriesSuper Sema.
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“People will ask me, ‘Are you excited to go back?’ Excitement isn’t the word,” Nyong’o said. “I feel like I’m in a very pensive and meditative state when it comes toBlack Panther 2. [Chadwick’s] passing is still extremely raw for me. And I can’t even begin to imagine what it will be like to step on set and not have him there.”
Nyong’o said Coogler’s script carefully addresses Boseman’s absence after the actor died in August of last year at the age of 43 from a four-year struggle with colon cancer.
“At the same time we have a leader in Ryan, who feels very much like we do, who feels the loss in a very, very real way as well,” Nyong’o said. “And his idea, the way which he has reshaped the second movie is so respectful of the loss we’ve all experienced as a cast and as a world.”
Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverwill be released on July 8, 2022.
source: people.com
