Angela Bassett Is Still Enjoying the Black Panther Oscar Buzz

Angela Bassett didn’t have it easy when it came time to prepare for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Shortly after the death of Chadwick Boseman, Bassett’s character, Queen Ramonda, was rewritten into the center of the narrative. She’s the new leader of Wakanda, tasked with healing a grieving nation and guiding her grieving daughter, Shuri (Letitia Wright). “She has to be more sovereign than she was before,” Bassett says in our Little Gold Men interview. “She has to be stronger and wiser and gentler—because sometimes gentleness is where the greatest strength emerges from.” It was with that swirl of influences that… Read Full Article