Wakanda Forever: It Was An Emotional Journey For Me-Kamaru Usman

Wakanda Forever: It Was An Emotional Journey For Me-Kamaru Usman

Oboirien Rasaq

Former UFC welterweight champion ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ Kamaru Usman was featured in Marvel’s new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever features motion picture. The star of Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, passed away in 2020, and the filming for the second film still went ahead with an adjusted story.

The Nigerian-American athlete sat down with Olympian Daniel Cormier and Super Bowl Champion Ryan Clark to discuss the film.

"The whole life of the set, shooting, it was an emotional journey for all those actors and actresses that were there on set. Because, and I wasn’t around for the first movie, but being a part of the second one, you got to see how much he meant to the movie, and how much he had his hands in the making of the movie. 

"So it was very emotional. I mean shooting some of the scenes there were some tough days on set with some of the actors and actresses because they were so connected to him and everything that he meant to that franchise.”

Usman continued and added that the accomplished director Ryan Coogler became the glue that kept the film together.

 Usman continued:"That’s the great thing about Ryan [Coogler], the director. Ryan is such an amazing director and I think they did a great job of really paying homage to the late great Chadwick [Boseman].”