Trevor Noah responds to the question of whether his AI Griot could reappear in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with the same skill as other MCU vets.
Trevor Noah gives a coy response to the question of whether he returns for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Releasing in theaters next month, Wakanda Forever is the sequel to 2018’s hit MCU film Black Panther. Noah had a small but important role in the first movie, lending his voice to the role of Griot. Griot was an AI system that Shuri (Letitia Wright) created for use in her lab.
Wakanda Forever will be vastly reshaped from the original Black Panther film, as T’Challa actor Chadwick Boseman tragically passed away in 2020, and actor Daniel Kaluuya will not be returning as his character of W’Kabi, due to scheduling conflicts. As such, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will take time to dig further into its existing characters, including powerful female leads played by Wright, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danai Gurira. The MCU sequel will also expand the universe through new characters. These new introductions include the antagonistic Namor the Sub-Mariner, played by Tenoch Huerta, and Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, played by Dominique Thorne. Ironheart is a relatively new addition to Marvel as a whole, as she first appeared in the comics in 2016 as a young woman who transforms into a superhero by engineering her own version of Iron Man’s armor.
The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever cast is an impressive one, and Noah teases his potential inclusion in a recent interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Noah first recounts his intense loathing for film spoilers. Despite that, Fallon still prods Noah for one spoiler about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Check out Noah’s response:
“Trevor Noah: I hate spoilers. So I wouldn’t spoil it even for my friends to let them know that I’m doing a thing. I genuinely don’t. I don’t watch trailers, for instance. I hate trailers. I like getting into the movie not knowing what’s going to happen, what’s coming, not anticipating a single thing. …Have you noticed they’ll put a thing in the trailer that’s not in the movie? And you’ll wait for the whole movie and you’re like ‘heh…where’s the thing?’. . . I enjoy the experience of going to the movie, sitting with my popcorn, not knowing what’s going to happen and then just enjoying it. I want to go for the ride, let’s see what happens.
Jimmy Fallon: I know you probably won’t tell me now, but are you in the new Black Panther? Of course you’re not going to tell me, you just explained to me that you don’t like spoilers.
Trevor Noah: I’m just saying, you should watch it.