You're listening to Comedy Central Niagara. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Thank you. It's amazing to be bad. It is amazing to have you here, especially on the heels of yet Again, one of the most successful films to come out. The last I checked Black Panther gross, I think it was like three hundred and thirty or forty million. Everybody is loving the movie. People are loving you in the movie. I just watched it a few days ago.
And I know I'm biased because you're sitting here with me, but I think you have some of the funniest lines in the film. I also think you have some of the baddest, like like amazing fight scenes and choreography. How does it feel Because this was such a long project, there were so many ups and downs. There was a pandemic, there was the unfortunate loss of Chadwick. Everything came together to create this moment. Have you taken a moment to
process it all? Thank you? Not yet? Not yet. I'm getting there, but um, you know, it has been an amazing journey and and a tremendous one, and a painful one and and in tense one. Uh you know, starting from the beginning when we you know, tragically lost our brother and our king, our leader, Chadwick, and so really coming back was all about honoring him. So really it was like Ryan always mentions the a line my character says, which is, you know I gave, I gave everything like that.
Basically we came back with that, like it was just about giving all we had to this and honoring him. And so to have it um come to a place where people are enjoying it this much and and responding to it this well, I mean, it just it just feels it feels very full circle in the sense that the goal was to honor him, and the way Ryan beautifully arcdd to be something that honored him, um, which involves I think something that I think he would love, which is that it is a full experience as well
as walk through our grief with it. Is it really is? I I not just people crying in the cinema. Obviously, people were cheering, people were laughing. But it reminded you of what you want movies to be, you know, an experience, and it was it was it was an authentic experience. I I enjoyed joid seeing how both the audience and then I felt like the cost had an experience of cathosis that everyone everyone got to say goodbye in a
different way. Everyone got to go through that. You know, when you when you look at this journey and where it's come, look at how Black Panther has reshaped how we see superheroes. People have talked about how diversity has never been the same on screen. You know, this is the first woman black lead film that Marvel has ever put out, and it's crushing it. People are loving it. It's it's it's huge, it's momentous. Yeah. I mean that's just been so much the year because I mean it
is really something I grew up. You know. The other big thing is that it's also African and and like I grew up next door to you in Zimbabwe. And it's not too painful to the year are close up, but you know, I appreciate. I think I always love with Ryan Coogler is the director. I say, like, you chose one of the hardest languages to just like Cossa. It's like, first of all, it's an African language, but it's like what if we added clicks into it as well?
And I think the cost does really well, not just with the passa, but I mean, you've got some some like you could take Mayan in the movie, and that's that's what makes us. I'm not going to spoil the plot for anyone, So if there's gaps, I'm doing that on purpose. But you have a movie that now isn't just talking about the African diaspora around the world. You're also you're also in this conversation about where we've come from as people's in South America and Central America, and
it's all coming together in a really gripping way. Well, the beauty of it is like that aspect of that shared conversation that Africa could have with that part of the world, which is we were both we both went through a lot of imperialism, we both went through colonization, we both lost indigenous cultures lost a lot through that
very you know, wretched process. And so it's actually this reclaiming that we're getting to see these two cultures mirror each other as they do that well, Wakonda has kept it and protected it and then and so has that have so have the Talcamill. So it's this beautiful kind of reflection on each other, which I just think is kind of unprecedented and really really excited at your character shines. Some of my favorite lines genuinely in the movie are yours.
Because here's the thing. We met you as this bad ass on screen, kicking ass running. You know. I always said, do you know how bad as you have to be to be the bodyguards for the Black Panther? You know what I mean? That scene of in the casino, that first fight scene where everyone's just like who are you and what are you doing? And your character comes back. The fight scenes are even more intense. You know, there's parts where you're fighting in the water and then you're
you're not were you actually doing that? By the way, yes, I have a little bit of a torn muscle in my shoulder to prove it, but it's it's all good now it's healed. It's healed, so you don't, okay, like water water fight scenes and yeah, and the scene well my character, yeah, this is the key thing that um you know, the stuff on the bridge, all that stuff. Yeah, I had to because there's no way I could. To me, it's like, how do I do the role if I'm
not doing the role. She's a warrior and like I was coming from from Walking Dead as well, so I was used in Walking Dead. It was just like get out there and do it. Go be somebody, you know. It was like get it done. So like I was used to just getting out there and just getting it done, like I. And that's and really acquainting myself with the weapon. And we did that so hard in the first one, so in the second one there was no exception. I
had to do my fights. I had to learn my fights, and yeah, it was it's a it's a lot of work. It's um, there's there's no way around the work. But to me, that's actually how you become the character. You can't become a Ky outside of how she knows how to fight, and you have to keep doing the part of who she is. So it needs to be a part of who you are. Like I had to I had to win. That was my thing, Like I could
not win the general ACOA. This is you crap, You might be right, yeah, this is this is because we see your character on this journey and again I won't spoil it, but what we see is your on your on your character's journey, is her grappling with the idea that she's not in control. Her grappling with the idea
that she cannot protect everybody, including herself. Her grappling with the with the idea of failure, which is such a personal experience, you know, for anybody to share for wable, but it's also vulnerable to have is to go, yeah, I I am not what everybody needed me to be. And you felt that pain in your character. Oh yeah, that that and that That's what I loved about how
Ryan like bifurcated the grief process in different characters. And my character she just doesn't really take care of herself that way, So to actually to have to get confronted with it that way was the only way she was really going to be because she is so I have to take care of everybody else. I have to make sure this. You know, she's got the country on her shoulders. I've got to keep it protected and secure. I gotta keep this family protected and secure. That she feels she's
a part of UM. So the lines are all blurred between you know, her job and her personal experiences of losing her brother and and taking care of his family. So yeah, it is definitely that sort of aspect of not being able to UM, to to hold everything down and not being able to process her pain and her grief for herself. Can I just say, on behalf of everybody who was a massive fan of the first film, thank you for what you put into the second one.
Thank you for making it the film that it is from our cutting corners, for enjoying it, for representing everybody on end off the screen. I appreciate you so much. Thank you for joining me on the show, such areasaving everybody. Watch The Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast