Letitia Wright inBlack Panther(2018).Photo:Marvel/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Marvel/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
Letitia Wrightis eager to reprise herBlack Panthercharacter.
Speaking with PEOPLE while touting her new movieSurrounded, the 29-year-old actress says she would “like to be hopeful” about returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Shuri, whotakes over the superhero mantlefrom her brother King T’Challa (the lateChadwick Boseman) inBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.
“The way we end [Wakanda Forever], it definitely shows that this character is going to go on a healing journey,” Wright says. “She has responsibilities as an auntie, and as someone who is one of the last remaining members of the royal family. That’s, unfortunately, just something that she’s dealing with.”
The actress adds that “the indication” of whether Shuri will return in a future MCU installment “is in the comic books, really.”
“[The] comic books reveal a lot,” Wright says.
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Cast and crew ofBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever(2022).Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney
For now, Wright prioritizes keeping in contact with herBlack Panthercastmates, who are “really a family” that she will “have forever.”
“We spread out and go do our thing and then we collectively come back. Every two or three years or so, I see everybody,” she tells PEOPLE.
For example, she connected withDanai Gurira, who plays Okoye in the films, just “a few months ago” — and even rode camels in Dubai withWinston Duke(M’Baku).
“I text [director/co-writer]Ryan Cooglerall the time, check in with him and his family. We have a great bond, a beautiful bond,” Wright says. “I see MamaAngela [Bassett]all the time, awards season — giving her flowers, just making sure that she’s good.”
“Five years after the Civil War, freedwoman and former Buffalo Soldier Moses ‘Mo’ Washington travels west to lay claim on a gold mine — the summation of years of toil for Mo and her community,” reads an official synopsis of the film. “It is a mean, dangerous world for an unaccompanied Black woman in 1870 America, and so Mo travels into the deep frontier disguised as a man.”
Asked about her first time both producing and starring in a film, Wright tells PEOPLE that the responsibilities' “duality” made the project not “as daunting or as tough as it usually should be.”
“I got to just share my opinions on the script … and just the day-to-day on-set activities [in] that if something was going wrong, I would try to speak up and get things sorted as best as I could,” she says. “It was a good learning experience that took me into the other opportunities to produce, such asThe Silent Twins, and then now my next film that I’m getting ready to do in January.”
Surroundedwill be available On Digital everywhere Tuesday.
source: people.com
