“We don’t know what it [the new prize] is, so I don’t know whether to be happy about it or not,” Chadwick Boseman (which is the name Black Panther uses when he’s pretending to be a civilian and not a massively powerful superhero and heir to a lifetime fortune of vibranium) told The Hollywood Reporter recently. “What I can say is that there’s no campaign [that we are mounting] for popular film; like, if there’s a campaign, it’s for best picture, and that’s all there is to it.”
“What we did was very difficult,” Boseman, who I must admit is surprisingly casual about outing his civilian identity to a major trade magazine, continues. “We created a world, we created a culture… we had to create a religion, a spirituality, a politics; we had to create an accent; we had to pull from different cultures to create clothing styles and hair styles. It’s very much like a period piece.” Indeed, and the movie is beautiful.
Oh, hm, I’ve just been told that Chadwick Boseman is an actor who merely plays a superhero named Black Panther and the movie of the same name is a work of fiction?! You learn something new everyday! Still deserves “Best Picture” over “Popular Film” any day, though.
