- I want you to get this right now,
there is a reason why I have this on,
this is a homage,
I don't know if that's a panther, but it's close enough,
and the reason I have it on because this man has been
absolutely amazing, now I know you may think that everything
that happened to him, happened overnight,
but this man has been at it for a long time,
I mean you talk about James Brown,
you talk about Thurgood Marshall,
you talk about Jackie Robinson,
and every time I see him, he gets it done.
Please start getting your Wakanda on right now,
and welcome Chadwick Boseman.
Oh my guy, my guy, my guy.
First of all man, I wanna thank you for coming,
I sat with you in my house.
- Right, right, right, right.
- And I'm looking in your eyes,
and I know what's about to happen to you.
I don't know if you knew.
- Nah I didn't know, I didn't know if people would be
receptive to the culture,
I think we created, we had to create a culture.
- But when you say culture, you didn't know we would
get African?
- Right, it had to be connected to a authentic ritual
and spiritual reality, so that it stayed in the movie.
- Yeah.
- The studio wouldn't cut it out because you don't have
an authentic black panther without that.
- Wow.
- You know I remember also being with you
and you introduced me to, it was a older brother.
- Yeah.
- And you said he's the new Black Panther,
he was like y'all doing a Black Panthers?
Y'all got Huey P dude, y'all got Buck C who?
Like, who you playing?
And my hair wasn't long and the boy said
you need to grow your hair longer 'cause they had 'fros,
and I was like whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Yeah my pops and all them had put their black leather
caps on, then went we gonna stand for the cause
for Black Panther,
I'm like, this is different, this is different.
- (laughs) It's not the same way, it's not the same way.
- When you saw the box office, what was your feeling
now that you are, take this in Mr. Boseman,
the third highest grossing movie of all time.
Everybody to ever turn their camera on
and say action and cut, you didn't kick their ass.
- Right, right, I think that's the part where I felt
that sense of fulfillment, 'cause I don't,
usually I don't care about what the numbers are,
I've had the studio tell me well we can't put your
picture on the international poster because that doesn't
work overseas, that still exists, that idea
still exists, so to see the international numbers
along with the domestic numbers,
and they're like, almost the same.
- Exactly. - You know what I'm saying?
That was the thing about it for me that made me go
aha, you know I don't often do that but it just like.
- It felt good, it felt good to do it, and you know what,
it's so real, I've seen some people who actually
went to Travelocity on the road 'bout this.
- Yeah.
- And are trying to go to Wakanda.
- Yeah.
- Are you feeling what I'm saying?
Like, you're that good, the black folks are like
hey man, spring break, we're going to Wakanda.
(laughs)
We're going to Wakanda on spring break,
and I'm telling you, I see you when you (makes fight noises)
in the thing, I see you doing your stunts,
that thing looked real, because a lot of times you know,
they try to teach the star
and they don't really get it all, you boxed for real.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So if anybody run up in the club.
- It's a problem.
- Have you ever had a real toss up?
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- So cool, it was lights out?
- It was quick.
- Woowee, you see the confidence?
Don't run up on the panther.
- Yeah don't run up on the panther.
- Don't run up on.
- The bodyguards is to protect you from me.
(laughs)
I'm joking, I'm joking.
- No, no, no it's all good.
- Sorta.
- And I appreciate this again, here we are Off Script,
I know, you know what I'm saying dude,
that time is precious, but I gotta ask you,
teach me how to speak Wakandan.
- You already can do it, what are you saying?
- So, so, so we got some words here from movies.
- So you're gonna need a bigger boat.
- You're gonna need a bigger boat, how would I say that in
Wakandan then?
- So I wouldn't do the gonna, I would change it to
you are going to, you are going to need a bigger boat.
- You are going to need a bigger boat.
Okay, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn is from
Gone With The Wind.
- I wanna see if you can do that anyway.
- Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
- You sound like, sorta like Sidney Poitier.
(laughs)
- Frankly I don't give a damn.
Okay, you talking to me, or Bond James Bond?
- You talking to me?
You talking to me?
- That's how I do it?
- Yeah, no, no I'm just, I'm just doing that.
- You talking to me?
You talking to me?
How do I do that?
- You talking to me?
- I am talking to you.
- You talking to me?
- I am talking to you.
- You talking to me?
- I will talk to you.
- Are you talking to me?
- Yes.
- [Both] Yeah.
- Black Panther two baby.
(laughs)
An actor or someone that you saw that made you say
yo, I gotta go do that?
- Ooo, you're one.
- Oh, thanks man.
- You're one, you're one.
De Niro, Taxi Driver, Godfather,
yeah Michael Fredo, all the Michael Fredo scenes.
- Fredo, you broke my heart, Fredo.
- See, you got it, you got it, you broke my heart.
- I'm smart, Mike, I'm smart.
- Yeah, all those scenes.
- To me, Fredo was one of the most important characters.
- Well, he's an amazing actor too, yeah,
so you really don't often pay attention to the parts
where who's playing a weaker character.
Just look at your film and see what is a good performance.
It's not always about the parts and who has the huge
spectacle moments, in Ray.
You and Jeffrey Wright in Ray,
I love Will Smith in that movie too, but.
- Oh you mean Ali.
- Yeah, some say Ali.
- I'm sorry.
- In Ali.
- Yeah, yeah, in Ali, yeah, yeah, when you was in Titanic.
- Yeah, yeah.
- No, I'm just kidding.
- Yeah, in Ali, Jeffrey Wright has, you know,
plays his brother and has like two lines in the movie,
so looking at your performances in that movie,
it's one of my favorite.
- You went to Oxford.
- I did, yeah, the great Phylicia Rashad, she suggested
that we take this classical training course at Oxford,
and it cost quite a bit of money, so she then basically
went to her friends and was like, we have a group of nine
students and they need some benefactors, and none of us
really knew who paid for us because they did it anonymously,
then later on,
I received a letter that said this is your benefactor,
so I was like what?
To see Denzel Washington's name on there,
you got an address where you can write him,
Mr. Denzel Washington, thank you so much for your,
you know I was still in college.
- You know I have my own Denzel story,
I couldn't get into the Roxbury back in the day,
and Denzel was coming out the Roxbury,
you know black people march when they get excited,
I was like Denzel, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(laughs)
And I went to grab him and he did some kinda elbow move
to the neck.
- Oh he did a 52 blocks on you.
- Calm down, alright.
I'm just trying to hear your props.
Anyway, my man, thank you so much.
- Yo, thank you for having me.
- Anytime, we'll take this and come to work with you bro.
- Yeah, yeah let's do that.
- You get it set, we'll come get it.
Listen, Infinity Wars is out, it's killing right now,
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- When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest
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