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- 'BLACK PANTHER' SCREENWRER COMMENTS ON RUMORED DELETED GAY ROMANCE SCENE
- BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’S ONLY LGBTQ+ MOMENT CUT FOR KUWA RELEASETWO OTHER SMALL BUT KEY MOMENTS WERE ALSO CUT OM THE FILM. BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 11, 2022COURTY OF MARVEL STUDS/DISNEY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, THERE’S A BRIEF MOMENT WHERE ’S MA CLEAR THAT MICHAELA COEL AND FLORENCE KASUMBA’S CHARACTERS—ANEKA AND AYO, DORA MILAJE WARRRS—ARE A RELATNSHIP. BUT VIEWERS WHO WATCH THE FILM KUWA WILL NEVER SEE THAT MOMENT. ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, THE BRIEF SCENE HAS BEEN CUT OM THE FILM FOR S THEATRIL N THE GULF UNTRY, REMOVG THE ONLY EXPLICLY LGBTQ+ SCENE THE BLACK PANTHER SEQUEL. IN THE SCENE, ANEKA KISS AYO ON THE FOREHEAD. AYO REPLI, “THANK YOU, MY LOVE,” MAKG CLEAR THE PAIR ARE ROMANTILLY LKED. THE SCENE LASTS JT A FEW SENDS (PAR FOR THE URSE WH MARVEL AND S TEPID LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN RERD), BUT WAS APPARENTLY STILL TOO MUCH FOR THE KUWAI CENSORS. THR ALSO REPORTS THAT A FEW OTHER SMALL BUT KEY EDS WERE MA, CLUDG A SCENE WHICH A WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO A CHILD AND A CHARACTER SAYS THE LE, “A GOD TO HIS PEOPLE” REFERENCE TO NAMOR, THE POWERFUL TALOKAN LEAR PLAYED BY TENOCH HUERTA. ALL ALL, THE CUTS AMOUNT TO JT OVER ONE MUTE OF FOOTAGE, PER THR. A SOURCE NFIRMED THE CUTS TO VANY FAIR, NOTG THEY WERE DONE TO ADHERE TO KUWA’S CULTURAL SENSIVI. THE CUTS THAT WERE MA WERE EMED NOT CRIL TO THE STORY, AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MA IF THEY IMPACTED THE STORYTELLG, THE SOURCE ADDS. TH FAR, THR NOT THAT KUWA IS THE ONLY GULF UNTRY TO N THAT LIGHTLY CENSORED VERSN OF THE FILM, A SEQUEL TO THE BILLN-DOLLAR 2018 H BLACK PANTHER. KUWA IS FAMOLY CENSOR WHEN TO S THEATRIL NS, REQUIRG THAT SCEN CLUDG TIMACY (REGARDLS OF GENR), RELIG REFERENC, MEDIL PROCR AND MORE BE EDED OUT OF FILMS, THE SOURCE TELLS VF. WHEN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER WAS RELEASED, A SCENE PICTG A KISS BETWEEN T’CHALLA AND NAKIA WAS EDED OUT OF THE FILM BEFORE ULD H THEATERS THE UNTRY. IN A PREV TERVIEW, COEL HAS SAID THAT ANEKA AND AYO’S RELATNSHIP WAS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE SIGNED ON TO THE SEQUEL. “THAT SOLD ME ON THE ROLE, THE FACT THAT MY CHARACTER’S QUEER,” SHE RECENTLY TOLD VOGUE. THE EMMY-WNG MULTIHYPHENATE, WHO IS BRISH-GHANAIAN, WAS PARTICULARLY TERTED PLAYG ANEKA BEE GHANA HAS NOTORLY OPPRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. “PEOPLE SAY, ‘OH, ’S FE, ’S JT POLICS.’ BUT I DON’T THK IS JT POLICS WHEN AFFECTS HOW PEOPLE GET TO LIVE THEIR DAILY LIV,” SHE NTUED. “THAT’S WHY FELT IMPORTANT FOR ME TO STEP AND DO THAT ROLE BEE I KNOW JT BY MY BEG GHANAIAN, GHANAIANS WILL E.”KASUMBA HAS SIARLY SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE. “WHEN YOU SEE THAT A PRODUCTN LIKE THIS, WH PEOPLE YOU REALLY LOOK UP TO, MAK A BIG DIFFERENCE,” SHE TOLD DIGAL SPY. IN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER, THERE WAS ORIGALLY A SCENE AN EARLY ROUGH CUT WHERE KASUMBA’S AYO APPEARED TO FLIRT WH OKOYE, THE DORA MILAJE LEAR PLAYED BY DANAI GURIRA (THOUGH MARVEL PREVLY CLARIFIED THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS NOT ROMANTIC). HOWEVER, THE SCENE WAS ULTIMATELY CUT OUT OF THE FAL FILM. WAKANDA FOREVER SEEMS TO, AT LAST, MAKE GOOD ON SHOWG THIS ASPECT OF AYO’S LIFE—EVEN IF IS AS WILDLY BRIEF AND MARVEL-SAFE AS POSSIBLE. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHYOHANA DTA
- BLACK PANTHER FOOTAGE REVEALS THE FEROC FEMALE WARRRS OF WAKANDA [UPDATED]WALKG DEAD STAR DANAI GURIRA MAK A POWERFUL IMPRSN.BY JOANNA ROBSONAPRIL 18, 2017SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEUPDATE 7:35 E.T.: A MARVEL REPRENTATIVE REACHED OUT TO SAY THAT THE NATURE OF THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN DANAI GURIRA’S OKOYE AND FLORENCE KASUMBA‘S AYO BLACK PANTHER IS NOT A ROMANTIC ONE AND THAT SPECIFIC LOVE STORYLE OM THE IC WORLD OF WAKANDA WAS NOT ED AS A SOURCE.THE ORIGAL ARTICLE NTU BELOW.WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD THE APPROVAL OF DISNEY WHEN HE DID SO, BETY AND THE BEAST DIRECTOR BILL CONDON ED QUE A STIR THE APRIL ISSUE OF ATTU—BOTH OF HOPEFUL EXPECTATNS AND OF NSERVATIVE PHBACK—WHEN HE TOUTED JOSH GAD’S CHARACTER LEFOU AND HIS “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT.” THOUGH CONDON SURELY HAD HIS HEART THE RIGHT PLACE, THE PHRASE OVERPROMISED ON WHAT THE FILM ULTIMATELY UNRLIVERED: THE MOMENT WHEN LEFOU ENDS THE MOVIE BY DANCG, BRIEFLY WH A MAN. O.K. HOWEVER, EARLY FOOTAGE OF MARVEL’S UPG BLACK PANTHER SCREENED FOR JOURNALISTS MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE PROMIS MUCH MORE.THE SCENE QUTN FEATUR WALKG DEAD STAR DANAI GURIRA DANCG ON A BOAT WH HER FELLOW DORA MILAJE, I.E., BLACK PANTHER’S PERSONAL FEMALE BODYGUARDS. THE WOMEN—FIRST TRODUCED TO MOVIEGOERS CAPTA AMERI: CIVIL WAR— ARE THE WARRRS WHO WATCH OVER CHADWICK BOSEMAN’S ROYAL FAY. IN CIVIL WAR, UGANDA-BORN ACTRS FLORENCE KASUMBA MA AN STANT IMPRSN ON DIENC AS ONE MEMBER OF THE SELECT GROUP WHEN SHE CURTLY ORRED SRLETT JOHANSSON’S BLACK WIDOW TO “MOVE” ASI FOR T’CHALLA.IN THE ROUGH CUT OF THIS BLACK PANTHER SCENE, WE SEE GURIRA’S OKOYE AND KASUMBA’S AYO SWAYG RHYTHMILLY BACK FORMATN WH THE RT OF THEIR TEAM. OKOYE EY AYO FLIRTATLY FOR A LONG TIME AS THE MERA PANS ON THEM. EVENTUALLY, SHE SAYS, APPRECIATIVELY AND APPRAISGLY, “YOU LOOK GOOD.” AYO RPONDS KD. OKOYE GRS AND REPLI, “I KNOW.”THIS QUICK MOMENT BETWEEN TWO WARRR WOMEN ON THEIR WAY TO T’CHALLA’S RONATN LEANS TO A CURRENT VERY POPULAR N OF THE BLACK PANTHER IC. A 2016 SP-OFF LLED WORLD OF WAKANDA BY TA-NEHISI COAT, ROXANE GAY, AND YONA HARVEY IS ALL ABOUT THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN TWO MEMBERS OF THE DORA MILAJE. THE OFFICIAL SCRIPTN:A WAKANDAN LOVE STORY—S TENRNS MATCHED ONLY BY S BTALY.YOU KNOW THEM NOW AS THE MIDNIGHT ANGELS, BUT THIS STORY THEY AREJT AYO AND ANEKA, YOUNG WOMEN RECED TO BEE DORA MILAJE, ANELE TASK FORCE TRAED TO PROTECT THE CROWN AT ALL STS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR NATN NEEDS YOUR HEARTSMOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLAND MDS, BUT YOU ALREADY GAVE THEM TO EACH OTHER?OTHER FOOTAGE OM THE FILM SCREENED EARLY FOR REPORTERS CENTERS MORE CLOSELY ON T’CHALLA, CLUDG SCEN OF A TRADNAL AND ELABORATE WAKANDAN CEREMONY, AND A SHOOT-OUT A SOUTH KOREA SO FEATURG ANDY SERKIS’S CLAW AND MART FREEMAN’S EVERETT K. ROSS. FOR FANS OF LUPA NYONG’O, THERE WAS ALSO A PAIR OF SCEN SHOWG HER CHARACTER DANCG (SHE GETS HER OWN BOAT) AND TAKG OUT SEVERAL ARMED GUARDS.THE STUM BLACK PANTHER—PECIALLY THE ON WORN BY THE DORA MILAJE—ARE TLY DAZZLG, WH A LOT OF BRIGHT LORS AND ELABORATE PATTERNS. ANGELA BASSETT, AS T’CHALLA’S MOTHER AND QUEEN OF WAKANDA, SPORTS A JAW-DROPPG IFFURE OF SNOW-WHE DREADLOCKS. ACRDG TO THE PRODUCTN TEAM, DIRECTOR RYAN COOGLER WAS TERTED GIVG BLACK PANTHER—THE STAR OF WHICH BUTED CIVIL WAR—AN UPDATED LOOK THAT WAS MORE FAHFUL TO THE CURRENT N OF ICS. AND THOUGH MARVEL DIDN’T SCREEN ANY FOOTAGE OF MICHAEL B. JORDAN STUME—HE’S PLAYG VILLAO ERIK KILLMONGER—NCEPT ART TACKED TO THE MARVEL OFFICE WALLS REVEALED A FEARSOME MASK PETE WH HORNS AND MANE.IN OTHER WORDS: EVEN IF MARVEL AND SUPERHERO FATIGUE IS SETTG , RT ASSURED THAT BLACK PANTHER ISN’T GOG TO LOOK LIKE ANYTHG YOU’VE SEEN OM THEM BEFORE.SEE THE TONY-NOMATED COSTUM OM ECLIPSED AND THE SKETCH THAT INSPIRED THEM1 / 6CHEVRONCHEVRONLEFT, URTY OF CLT RAMOS; RIGHT, URTY OF JOAN MARC.JOANNA ROBSON
'BLACK PANTHER' SCREENWRER COMMENTS ON RUMORED DELETED GAY ROMANCE SCENE
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BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’S ONLY LGBTQ+ MOMENT CUT FOR KUWA RELEASETWO OTHER SMALL BUT KEY MOMENTS WERE ALSO CUT OM THE FILM. BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 11, 2022COURTY OF MARVEL STUDS/DISNEY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, THERE’S A BRIEF MOMENT WHERE ’S MA CLEAR THAT MICHAELA COEL AND FLORENCE KASUMBA’S CHARACTERS—ANEKA AND AYO, DORA MILAJE WARRRS—ARE A RELATNSHIP. BUT VIEWERS WHO WATCH THE FILM KUWA WILL NEVER SEE THAT MOMENT. ACRDG TO THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, THE BRIEF SCENE HAS BEEN CUT OM THE FILM FOR S THEATRIL N THE GULF UNTRY, REMOVG THE ONLY EXPLICLY LGBTQ+ SCENE THE BLACK PANTHER SEQUEL. IN THE SCENE, ANEKA KISS AYO ON THE FOREHEAD. AYO REPLI, “THANK YOU, MY LOVE,” MAKG CLEAR THE PAIR ARE ROMANTILLY LKED. THE SCENE LASTS JT A FEW SENDS (PAR FOR THE URSE WH MARVEL AND S TEPID LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN RERD), BUT WAS APPARENTLY STILL TOO MUCH FOR THE KUWAI CENSORS. THR ALSO REPORTS THAT A FEW OTHER SMALL BUT KEY EDS WERE MA, CLUDG A SCENE WHICH A WOMAN GIV BIRTH TO A CHILD AND A CHARACTER SAYS THE LE, “A GOD TO HIS PEOPLE” REFERENCE TO NAMOR, THE POWERFUL TALOKAN LEAR PLAYED BY TENOCH HUERTA. ALL ALL, THE CUTS AMOUNT TO JT OVER ONE MUTE OF FOOTAGE, PER THR. A SOURCE NFIRMED THE CUTS TO VANY FAIR, NOTG THEY WERE DONE TO ADHERE TO KUWA’S CULTURAL SENSIVI. THE CUTS THAT WERE MA WERE EMED NOT CRIL TO THE STORY, AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MA IF THEY IMPACTED THE STORYTELLG, THE SOURCE ADDS. TH FAR, THR NOT THAT KUWA IS THE ONLY GULF UNTRY TO N THAT LIGHTLY CENSORED VERSN OF THE FILM, A SEQUEL TO THE BILLN-DOLLAR 2018 H BLACK PANTHER. KUWA IS FAMOLY CENSOR WHEN TO S THEATRIL NS, REQUIRG THAT SCEN CLUDG TIMACY (REGARDLS OF GENR), RELIG REFERENC, MEDIL PROCR AND MORE BE EDED OUT OF FILMS, THE SOURCE TELLS VF. WHEN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER WAS RELEASED, A SCENE PICTG A KISS BETWEEN T’CHALLA AND NAKIA WAS EDED OUT OF THE FILM BEFORE ULD H THEATERS THE UNTRY. IN A PREV TERVIEW, COEL HAS SAID THAT ANEKA AND AYO’S RELATNSHIP WAS ONE OF THE REASONS SHE SIGNED ON TO THE SEQUEL. “THAT SOLD ME ON THE ROLE, THE FACT THAT MY CHARACTER’S QUEER,” SHE RECENTLY TOLD VOGUE. THE EMMY-WNG MULTIHYPHENATE, WHO IS BRISH-GHANAIAN, WAS PARTICULARLY TERTED PLAYG ANEKA BEE GHANA HAS NOTORLY OPPRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAWS. “PEOPLE SAY, ‘OH, ’S FE, ’S JT POLICS.’ BUT I DON’T THK IS JT POLICS WHEN AFFECTS HOW PEOPLE GET TO LIVE THEIR DAILY LIV,” SHE NTUED. “THAT’S WHY FELT IMPORTANT FOR ME TO STEP AND DO THAT ROLE BEE I KNOW JT BY MY BEG GHANAIAN, GHANAIANS WILL E.”KASUMBA HAS SIARLY SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEER REPRENTATN THE MARVEL CEMATIC UNIVERSE. “WHEN YOU SEE THAT A PRODUCTN LIKE THIS, WH PEOPLE YOU REALLY LOOK UP TO, MAK A BIG DIFFERENCE,” SHE TOLD DIGAL SPY. IN THE FIRST BLACK PANTHER, THERE WAS ORIGALLY A SCENE AN EARLY ROUGH CUT WHERE KASUMBA’S AYO APPEARED TO FLIRT WH OKOYE, THE DORA MILAJE LEAR PLAYED BY DANAI GURIRA (THOUGH MARVEL PREVLY CLARIFIED THAT THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS NOT ROMANTIC). HOWEVER, THE SCENE WAS ULTIMATELY CUT OUT OF THE FAL FILM. WAKANDA FOREVER SEEMS TO, AT LAST, MAKE GOOD ON SHOWG THIS ASPECT OF AYO’S LIFE—EVEN IF IS AS WILDLY BRIEF AND MARVEL-SAFE AS POSSIBLE. THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED. MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMCAN YOU NAME THE FILM THAT LNCHED BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, AND MORE?THE ABSOLUTELY WILST DETAILS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S LATT INDICTMENT AGAST DONALD TMPIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI ETON COLLEGE, HARRY AND WILLIAM’S POSH ALMA MATERTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHYOHANA DTA
In 2016, the short-lived ic book seri World of Wakanda — wrten by Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey, and Ta-Nehisi Coat wh art by Alha E.