we re back to work, and we re there . the new black panther film, wakanda forever, is centred around two incredible women. we have queen ramonda, played by angela bassett, and her daughter shuri, played by letitia wright. talk me through the styles you created for them. how did they their styles complement the storytelling? well, we wanted to get into, like, the west african culture in the sense of, we wanted them to. if you were going to say a backstory, that they had shaved their heads in mourning, and that s what happens in west african culture. so, what would that look like a year later? so taking that idea, and i was like, 0k, angela, we re going to get rid of the locks . and ryan was like, are you sure? i said, yes. we re going to get rid of the locks. we re just going to go fresh. so keeping her in the same colour, but keeping her in a very crown shape, but like a.a 4a texture. and, you know, something that, like, uplifted her face and made her look really beautiful. and t
and i was really having a hard time getting past it. so once we had that moment, then it was like, 0k, we re back to work, and we re there . the new black panther film, wakanda forever, is centred around two incredible women. we have queen ramonda, played by angela bassett, and her daughter shuri, played by letitia wright. talk me through the styles you created for them. how did they their styles complement the storytelling? well, we wanted to get into, like, the west african culture in the sense of, we wanted them to. if you were going to say a backstory, that they had shaved their heads in mourning, and that s what happens in west african culture. so, what would that look like a year later? so taking that idea, and i was like, 0k, angela, we re going to get rid of the locks . and ryan was like, are you sure? i said, yes. we re going to get rid of the locks. we re just going to go fresh. so keeping her in the same colour, but keeping her in a very crown shape, but like a.a 4a t
rid of the locks. we re just going to go fresh. so keeping her in the same colour, but keeping her in a very crown shape, but like a.a 4a texture. and, you know, something that, like, uplifted her face and made her look really beautiful. and then, with the shuri character, what we decided, you know, in the first movie, she was the fun loving kid. she had.she had the braids and we had the shaved sides and we had put lines in it. it was a whole different movie. so coming into this movie, she is a young woman trying to figure out who she is. like, how do we lead a nation? and she was still very much heavy in mourning. so we wanted to change her up. so we still kept her sides shaved in the back, we made a hairpiece and we did two strand twist on it. keep it very, very simple. but it s something that still s going to keep you in the frame of what we did in the first one, but still gave you that connection to the second one. that s awesome. yeah. that s really. i have no idea. that s so co