Captain America: Civil War (our review available here) has been ramping up the promotion with new posters, a smattering of shiny new clips, and a final trailer. And now we finally get to hear the voice of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa (Black Panther), who was spotted in civilian garb with Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson before ultimately going Team Iron Man and fighting with Bucky, pursuing Captain America and Bucky in a car chase, and facing off against Cap in the airport fight.
There’s been speculation about what accent Boseman would choose for the character, considering Wakanda is a fictional nation. Boseman himself explained to Empire Magazine in February, “The idea of Wakanda is sort of, what if Timbuktu hasn’t been conquered? I basically listened to people and picked what sounded cool, since it’s not a specific place. […] It’s in the southern, central part of Africa. The attitude, the musicality, as is my preference of the character. It has to fit his dignity.”
We’re going to take a wiiiiild guess Will Smith’s accent in Concussion was not his Rosetta stone here.
Roll call. #TeamCaphttps://t.co/oeC4UkUZ0v
— Captain America (@CaptainAmerica) April 18, 2016
Roll call. #TeamIronManhttps://t.co/Bh7RDjnhs2
— Iron Man (@Iron_Man) April 18, 2016
Captain America: Civil War opens May 6.
(Via Coming Soon, Comic Book Movie, Empire Magazine via What Culture, and The Hollywood Reporter)
