-Gosh, you were fantastic in "Black Panther."
-Thank you. -Congratulations on that.
I mean, oh my gosh. -Thank you, guys. Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I want to know more about you.
Where are you from originally?
-I was born in Guyana, South America.
-Okay, yeah.
-And I moved to London when I was 8, and now I'm a Londoner.
-Now, you're a Londoner. -Yes.
-Have you always been an actress?
-Um, I -- I tried different things when I was a kid,
you know, in Guyana, I guess.
You know, there's the outdoor space, and you know,
I would just pick anything up and try to have fun.
And I just remember just always picking up the buckets
and flipping them over
and breaking off some sticks off the trees
and, like, you know, playing the drums,
and I won't challenge you. [ Laughs ]
-Oh, that's the next one, Quest. That's the next one.
-No, I can challenge you. I can challenge you.
So I would be, like, hitting up the drums,
and my aunt would be like screaming out the window like,
"Can you stop? I'm trying to go to work,"
in a very strong Guyanese accent, by the way.
My Aunty Tessa, and slowly but surely,
I started to, like, watch movies,
or I would practice, like, you know, Backstreet Boys.
You know, their dance moves and stuff.
So I think --
-You owe it all to the Backstreet Boys.
-Yes. -Absolutely.
Just say it, I mean, please.
-I owe it all to the Backstreet Boys.
-You heard it here first.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You knew all the dance moves and stuff?
-Yeah, so I guess that kind of, like,
revealed to me my creative side.
-Wow.
-So I would pick stuff up from music videos and movies
and stuff and just do it.
So, yeah, that's how I started off.
-So you started off with, like, buckets and sticks, and now --
-Yeah. -Here you are.
"Black Panther" has made over like --
It's like a billion dollars worldwide,
something crazy like that.
It's the biggest phenomenon in the world.
Do people freak out when they see you
and not know how to react?
-Now, like, when I meet people, I always shake people's hands.
-Absolutely. -Everybody goes, "Nah."
[ Laughter ]
And I'm just like, "Wait, what?" [ Applause ]
-That's right. Wakanda.
-So, the Wakanda forever.
-Wakanda forever.
That's you're -- you have to do that now every --
-Every time.
So I never have to worry about my hands being dirty.
Hand sanitizers are, like, through the window.
-Goodbye, Purell. Yeah, I don't need Purell anymore.
You're like, "Hey, how you doing?"
Wakanda forever. -Airport, no everywhere.
Airports, coffee places, toilets.
Like, everybody's like... [ Laughter ]
-Come on. How cool is that though?
-It's cool. It's a blessing, man.
-I saw something on Twitter you put that was, like,
an unexpected thing that came from your fame
is that your sneaker game has to be on point?
-Yes.
-Because you have a giant line in the movie
where you look at Chadwick's -- He's wearing sandals.
-Yep, so he -- There's this amazing,
one of my favorite scenes in the whole film,
and he's walking around, you know,
looking at the gadgets,
and she's checking out his foot game, you know, for the day.
-Yeah. -And he just was crowned --
He's just been crowned like -- crowned king.
-Yeah.
-So she looks at his feet and she goes, "What are those?!"
And he's just like, "What do you mean?
I got my toes out. I'm feeling good."
And she's like, "No, bro. Don't do that, don't do that."
So that -- that type of -- that's kind of like a meme
that Shuri knows about, and it's viral. It's famous.
So everybody now when they see me, they go, "What are those?"
And my sneaker game is always under attack.
Like, to the point where people on my Twitter page are like,
"Yo, what you wearing today? Take a picture of it now."
And I'm just like, "What? This is a lot."
So I have like --
-Everybody --
-Everybody, send me some trainers, send me sneakers.
Help me out. Help me out.
-Or don't judge as much, yeah, 'cause -- she's doing.
We're doing the best we can. -Yeah, I'm trying.
-I can't change it everyday. Exactly, yeah.
-I'm trying.
-So now you're doing "Avengers: Infinity War."
-Yes.
-You're probably not allowed to say much about the film.
-Not a thing. -Yeah.
You don't really have to explain it.
I just know that
the world is under attack. -Yes.
-Yes, and then you have to bring all the Avengers from I mean --
the cast is insane on this movie.
I mean, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson,
Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Chadwick Boseman.
I mean, there's so many.
Bradley Cooper, Mark Ruffalo --
I'm skipping, Angela Bassett, Jeremy Renner.
These are all people -- Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle --
-Basically everybody and their grandmom is in this movie.
-I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Letitia Wright in "Avengers: Infinity War."
Take a look at this.
♪♪♪♪
-Whoa. -The structure is polymorphic.
-Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially.
-Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses
to work collectively?
-Because we didn't think of it?
-I'm sure you did your best.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I can't wait for this.
I cannot wait.
Now, I heard -- I heard that on the set
that you would have little rap battles like off set,
like, just while you're waiting to do scenes.
-Yeah.
-You did, right? -Yes.
-One of them went viral. It was you and Lupita, I want to say.
-Yeah.
-Yeah, so what -- Have you always rapped or freestyled?
-Hey, Jimmy, man, it was all just for fun,
and now it's going all over the world.
Even P. Diddy be tweeting about us,
and I'm just like, "What the heck?"
-Oh, my gosh. [ Laughter ]
-It just -- It just started off as fun, you know.
It's something I've been doing, you know, all of my life,
just having fun.
-Do you have -- -I'm no Black Thought.
You know what I'm saying? -No, all right.
That's cool. Absolutely.
-I'm not on that level.
-I know. Do you have a rap name?
-Danai. She plays Okoye in the film.
She baptized me MC Baby Underbite.
[ Laughter ]
The reason why she did this is because on this particular day,
we had this -- if you've seen "Black Panther,"
and you should have seen "Black Panther."
-Yeah, we all saw it. Yeah, we all saw it by now.
-There's a scene where, you know, the --
T'Challa has to fight to be the king,
and Shuri has the tribal attire on, and she has the panther.
The panther tooth, like the frame of the panther's mouth,
kind of like the bone structure glued onto her face.
It's really just beautiful,
and one day I was like spitting to Danai on the low, you know,
spitting to her.
She would fake LL Cool J lines, and pretend to be --
pretend that it's her's,
but we'll talk about that another day.
[ Laughter ]
And I was spitting lines to her,
and then she was calling someone over,
and as she's calling them over,
she grabs the mike and she gives it to me.
Because the scene is so huge, you need a mike
to instruct everybody, and I was --
and then she put it in front of my face,
and I felt like I was Eminem in "8 Mile."
And I thought, "I ain't going to choke. What?"
So I started rapping, and then everybody started looking at me.
And then she's like, "Yo, yo, MC Baby Underbite."
-Yeah, but I want to show everyone a clip here.
Here's Letitia Wright, a.k.a. MC Baby Underbite, freestyling
on the set of "Black Panther." Look at this.
♪♪ -Nobody mess with me, no negative vibes ♪♪
♪♪ I wish you all the best, wish you all the sky highs ♪♪
♪♪ Listen from above, from God above ♪♪
♪♪ Yes, you and your family, yes, you're so blessed ♪♪
♪♪ Keep doing what you're doing, yeah, you're so fresh ♪♪