Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther premonition

Chadwick Boseman’s casting as Black Panther was predicted by a security guard.
The Get on Up star was in Australia working on Gods of Egypt in 2014 when the man gave Chadwick his Black Panther comic book, and shared his prediction that the actor would one day play the superhero. Black Panther is the alter ego of T’Challa, and the king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.
“He (The guard) has them (film team) put his first issue of Black Panther, the original 1977 issue… in my trailer and writes a note, it says ‘I believe you’re going to be Black Panther.’ Just out of nowhere,” he tells U.S. Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night (28Apr16).
“It was something that I wanted,” he reveals. “So Black Panther was on my radar as a dream, as something like that would be cool to do, I’m a fan of it but not like where it sort of takes over your consciousness as something that you’re actually going to do… until he did that,” the actor shared.
Chadwick, 39, then gave a shout out to the guard, named Charles Carter, and tells him to “come out wherever you are”. The actor still has the comic, which he estimates is worth $600 (£400) now.
That wasn’t the only sign that the superhero role was on the cards for Chadwick. Once when he took a phone call from Marvel bosses, his driver pulled the car over outside an antique shop which had “all these panthers in the window”.
The phone call had come in while he was on the red carpet in Zurich, Switzerland and he had to take time out from the event to find somewhere private to chat because “Marvel is really secret about everything.”
Chadwick makes his debut as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, which is released in the U.K. on Friday (29Apr16) and on 6 May (16) in the U.S.. He will get his own standalone movie in 2018.