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Before he hosts Saturday Night Live in the coming weeks, Sterling K. Brown has an idea for his hit series This Is Us, tapping into one of the main talking points from Black Panther.
“I think at some point in time Randall has to have more time with his family from Memphis,” Brown told The Huffington Post. “We opened up this whole other family that he didn’t even know that he had. I hope that we get more time to explore that arena. And then this is sort of a Black Panther/This Is Us crossover, if you will.”
As a father of two himself, Brown expressed how African-Americans are denied the chance to accurately locate their roots. His character, Randall, has one of the more complex stories on the series and Brown’s talents as an actor has earned him nearly every award from a Golden Globe to an Emmy and SAG Award. “So maybe if Randall could trace his ancestry back to the motherland that would be a really interesting thing to explore because we as African-Americans are a group denied the answer to that question: Where are you from?” he said.
Being part of Black Panther “filled him up” as he shared in the interview and he heaped tons of praise on Marvel for their courage in putting hundreds of millions of dollars behind a film with a majority black cast.
“To know that Marvel had the vision and the courage to put this sort of financing behind a film with all these African and African-American faces,” Brown told the Post, “and that it has proven that it can be financially viable and not just to the community to which it represents but to the mainstream as well. And that people see themselves.”
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