March 2024

When the time to start filming for “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally” rolled around in 2020, the very first thing director Ryan Coogler did was take the film’s solid and crew to go to Chadwick Boseman’s gravesite.  “Something magical happened there,” said Camille Friend, lead hairstylist for the “Black Panther” film series. “We got to wish and dance and sing, there have been drummers — I feel that moment healed everybody’s heart and allowed us to be like, ‘OK, we’re going to make ‘Wakanda Eternally’ — we’re going to do that for Chadwick.’” Boseman, who passed away in August 2020 resulting from stage-four colon cancer, played the titular role of the Black Panther, or T’Challah, within the series’ first film, which premiered in...