Actor Chadwick Boseman's personal perspective on the hiring of (Black) Director Ryan Coogler...
Q. Does he think a White director could have done as good a job? Boseman told Variety:
“Well, is it possible for them to make it? It could be, yes. Would they have his perspective, like the perspective [Coogler] brought to the movie? Probably not. It wouldn’t be nuanced in the same way because they don’t have the same conflict. They don’t have the African-American conflict that always exists: whether you’re conscious of it or not, you have an ancestry that’s very hard to trace. And then, going to the continent and meeting a person that’s African. In order to do this, you have to find ways to make those connections, especially because the character is coming from that place. They know exactly who they are, who their ancestors are. Would a White director understand that? Those nuances of American, African-American, African? I’m not sure. But I think it’s an important part of this movie.”