When Marvel asked Boseman to do the role with an American or British accent, he refused, because he believed that if he did, every line he uttered would imply that Wakanda, the utopian African nation where T’Challa is ruler, had been colonized at some point. “It felt to me like a deal-breaker,” he said. “I was like, ‘No, this is such an important factor that if we lose this right now, what else are we gonna throw away for the sake of making people feel comfortable?’ ”
