Coming in 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be spending a little bit of time on Earth, for the first stand-alone film featuring Black Panther. The movie has a cast to be envied by any production, with Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Patricia Rashad, and Angela Bassett. With all of the excitement surrounding this cast fans could be getting nervous that the movie itself would be a letdown. Bassett, who plays the queen mother Ramonda, in a recent interview with TooFab, made an assurance that this is not going to be the case.

It seems like there’s a vast wide audience of people who are eagerly anticipating the arrival of Black Panther at the top of the new year. I had a fantastic time and no one’s gonna be disappointed.

Of course, no actor is going to come out and say that their upcoming film is anything less than spectacular, but it is always nice to see the people involved in a project to be excited. We haven’t seen anything from Black Panther, which has wrapped filming, yet, but the action in Wakanda is sure to set it apart from the rest of the MCU. In fact, Bassett assures us that she had a simple goal in mind, as she was filming. When asked on whether the queen mother would kick-ass along with the rest of the film’s warriors, she said:

You know, in some way. I don’t know if it’s the way you’d most expect but I certainly went into set every day with that on my mind: Kick plenty!

While Marvel has been criticized over the past year for the whitewashing of Asian characters and traditions, the studio has filled Black Panther with an amazing cast of people of color. While the African setting of Wakanda is expected to be amazingly beautiful, the cast will be, as well which Basset continued to tease:

It is just a beautiful sight. It’s a lot of strength and balance and beauty and I’m just thrilled by getting to work with Danai and Lupita and actresses and brand new faces across the diaspora, it was beautifully cast. It’s going to be quite a sight and I think it’s going to be magnetic.

We can’t wait to see this amazing cast in action, but there is still a little more than nine months to go. Black Panther premieres February 16, 2018. Until Marvel gives us more to talk about, are you still hyped for this magnificent cast?

Source: TooFab