What Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Needed Was a Kiss
Spoilers follow for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever shows its seams. It’s partially a movie about mourning Chadwick Boseman, whose August 2020 death from colon cancer came as a shock to his collaborators and castmates. It’s also an introduction to the antihero Namor (Tenoch Huerta Mejía) and his underwater kingdom of Talokan, which is rich with references to Mesoamerican history and culture. Those two narrative tracks are mostly divergent, but they could have come together in a very obvious way: Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) and Namor should have kissed.
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