‘Black Panther’ Star Winston Duke Reveals How YouTube Helped Him Prepare for First Movie Role

 

โ€œBlack Pantherโ€ is officially a box-office smash, and today โ€œExtraโ€™sโ€ Tanika Ray sat down with star Winston Duke at Universal Studios Hollywood to talk about what itโ€™s like for his first movie to be a Marvel blockbuster!

How did the Yale Drama School graduate, who plays Mโ€™Baku in the movie, prepare for one of the biggest auditions of his career?

Winston told Tanika, “What really calms me down is being prepared. So I searched out interesting ways to be prepared. I went crazy looking up testing stuff on YouTube. People doing screen tests. So all day I watched screen tests and I went in there not feeling like it was completely unfamiliar.โ€

He added, “Iโ€™m at the audition in the room and seeing big stars and I’m like, โ€˜Woah, big stars who I admire and I love. This would be crazy, I don’t think I’m going to get this at all.’ Months went by, and then I had a chemistry test with [โ€˜Black Pantherโ€™ star] Chadwick Boseman and I lost my mind!”

โ€œBlack Pantherโ€ is in theaters now.

Check out the interview in it’s entirety clickย here.

Credit: ย EXTRA

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