Daniel Kaluuya on playing Black Panther Fred Hampton: “The biggest version of me had to show up”

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Get Out actor Daniel Kaluuya will be returning to the big screen next month as the leader of the Black Panther Party. The actor's next film titled Judas and the Black Messiah's trailer released on Tuesday and we're all glued to it.

LaKeith Stanfield) who infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), leading to the police raid and killing of Hampton in 1969 when he was just 21. Costume designer Charlese Antoinette Jones recreated the historical uniform of the Black Panther Party in the late '60s, such as incorporating the iconic beret.ET spoke with Jones on her research process and the impact of her work in the film, set to release in theaters

Antonio Ferme editorThe Palm Springs International Film Festival will honor Daniel Kaluuya with the 2021 International Star Award for his portrayal of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”The film awards gala will not host an in-person event, but honoree selections will recognize the year’s great performances.

Daniel Kaluuya goes from to the Black Panthers with, the true-story drama in which he stars as civil rights leader Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party who was assassinated in 1969.Kaluuya's Hampton is the Black Messiah of the title, while the traitorous Judas refers to William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), an informant coerced by the FBI to infiltrate the Black Panther Party and report back on the chairman they deemed a radical threat.

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When Dominique Fishback, who grew up in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood, attended Pace University, she was the only Black American in her classes. It was an experience that inspired her to write Subverted, a one-woman play about Black identity and inequality in which she plays 22 characters.

Gallery: 20 fantastic Keanu Reeves moments (Espresso) Kaluuya even drew his energy from the crowd when he found himself struggling to complete the scene. "I would forget the lines and the crowd would pick me up," he explained.

Sundance Film Festival after the movie’s premiere Monday night of the scene in which he delivers Hampton’s famed “I am a revolutionary” speech.“When I say I can’t remember what I did, I didn’t have an idea about how I was going to play something. I just knew I was a vessel.

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Disney+ from the movie’s writer/director Ryan Coogler, according to The Wrap. A spinoff of the 2018 blockbuster hit that raked in more than $1 billion, the TV series will center on the Kingdom of Wakanda, the fictional nation in the heart of Africa. At present, it has not been announced whether it will focus on characters from the movies, such as M’Baku (Winston Duke), or if it will follow new characters.

writer-director Ryan Coogler for an exclusive TV deal and his first project is a series «based in the Kingdom of Wakanda,» ET can confirm.«It's an honor to be partnering with The Walt Disney Company. Working with them on was a dream come true,» Coogler said in a statement.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros’ Judas and the Black Messiah may have been set in the late 1960s, but it could have very well taken place in 2021 as it puts a glaring spotlight on the treatment of the Black community, activism and identity.

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In Judas and the Black Messiah filmmaker Shaka King dives deep into the story of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, and William O’Neal, who served as an FBI informant to help silence Hampton and the BPP.

Angela Bassett says Chadwick Boseman is «completely irreplaceable.» The actress played the late actor's mother, Ramonda, in, and touched on the recent news that he would not be recast or digitally recreated in the upcoming sequel.Boseman, who tragically died in August at the age of 43 following a quiet battle with colon cancer, starred as T'Challa, a.k.a Black Panther, the king of the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda.

In Warner Bros.' Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and a co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition, whose killing in a 1969 raid was the result of an FBI counterintelligence operation. That government plot placed a petty thief named William O'Neal (played in the film by LaKeith Stanfield) undercover to infiltrate the party's dealings and undermine its community organizing.