Angela Bassett says that Letitia Wright is well and ready to continue despite her recent injury while shooting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Following her recent hospitalization, Angela Bassett says her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever co-star Letitia Wright feels much better.
Bassett told ET, “She had a little bit of a tumble, but it’s not too serious.” She went on saying that “anything like that would jolt you awake, but she’s only a little, frail, tiny creature. She, on the other hand, is well and ready to leave.”
Wright’s injury is getting better
Wright was injured while shooting Wakanda Forever in Boston, near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she and Danai Gurira had collaborated.
Dominque Thorne as Riri Williams, a young engineering genius who, in the comics, builds her version of the Iron Man suit before taking on her heroic persona as Ironheart, made an early debut at MIT.
Thorne will also appear in an upcoming Disney+ Ironheart TV series.
How will the story continue after Bosman’s death?
Given Chadwick Boseman’s death in 2020, it’s unclear how Wakanda Forever will continue the original Black Panther’s narrative without T’Challa.
However, Boseman, Bassett, and Gurira all contributed their voices to the newest episode of Marvel’s What If…?, which depicted a universe in which Michael B. Jordan’s Eric “Killmonger” Stevens saved Tony Stark from the Ten Rings assault and the explosion that pierced his heart in Iron Man.
Killmonger used Stark to construct a series of sophisticated military drones while simultaneously covertly murdering T’Challa and James Rhodes as part of a plot to push the US and Wakanda against one other, all while posing as a friend to Wakanda’s royal family.
In this reality, Queen Ramonda of Bassett, a Dora Milaje commander, led Wakanda’s troops in their defense against the Liberator drones.
In addition to the established cast of Wakanda Forever, leaked images have some fans believing Julia Louis-Dreyfus may appear in the film as Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, a new recurring Marvel character.
Valentina first appears in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as a mystery recruiter interested in John Walker’s future, then returned in Black Widow’s post-credits sequence as someone linked to Yelena Belova, positioning the former Widow to kill Clint Barton.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, directed by Ryan Coogler, will be released in cinemas on July 8, 2022.
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