![]() ![]() (Image credit: Marvel Studios)įor Gurira, having the license to explore new elements of Okoye’s personality, including how she handles life-altering events, and her character reinvention was concurrently frightening and liberating. Okoye's arc in Wakanda Forever is profoundly moving. Her questionable decision-making sees Okoye make grave errors that, without spoiling anything, threaten the safety of her country and her role in protecting it. Viewers will remember how loyal she is to the Wakandan throne – Okoye famously telling Nakia “I am loyal to the throne, no matter who sits upon it” during one particularly tense Black Panther scene, before later revealing to ex-love W’Kabi she’d kill him to keep Wakanda safe.Įmotionally and mentally fractured by T’Challa’s passing, Okoye’s judgement is skewed throughout Black Panther 2. It’s this dichotomy that fuels Okoye’s deeply moving character arc in Wakanda Forever. We trained for months and then the scene took so long to shoot Alex Livinalli, Black Panther 2 actor With no one assuming the Black Panther mantle after his death, Okoye’s role in keeping Wakanda safe is more important than ever – circumstances that leave her little time to emotionally heal and accept Wakanda’s latest king is no longer around. Gurira’s Okoye, head of the Dora Milaje (Wakanda’s all-female special forces), is equally unable to grieve for T’Challa. ![]()
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