American actors playing Africans

I'm sure there are all sorts of union fees and other aspects, such as insurance, to take into account when casting a movie as grand as this.

I don't think Black Panther needs to be the top movie for vertical distribution of assets across African nations but it could lead to more movies being set there and more local people being involved in the process of movie making which can have its own knock-on effect with regards to economic benefits and better platforms for stories from the continent.

It is nice to see people celebrating their cultures in cinemas across Africa, it's certainly cheered me up seeing people be happy and thinking of their ancestry and heritage.

I'm sick of Charlize Theron stealing American jobs! Damn her!

well... the movie might be set in Africa, but it is primarily about American issues... Also, it's an American movie, so naturally the leads/cast are going to be American given the large pool of actors and especially when you're relying on the star power and charisma of Michael B. Jordan to give Killmonger/ErikStevens weight as a villain who grew up in the US...

Also, Lupita Nyong'o's parents are Kenyan; She was born in Mexico. Danai Gurira's parents are from Zimbabwe; She was born in the US, so their familial ties to Africa are more recent than your average American actor...

I would love to have seen Djimon Hounsou have a role as one of the elders. Underrated actor... Who would you guys have liked to have seen?

I doubt there are any good African actors outside South Africa. That's were the majority of theaters are.

You're right. This is cultural appropriation in its most brazen, shameless form. Almost every one of the stars of this picture (Chadwick Boseman, Michael Jordan, Danai Gurira, etc) have no connection to African culture. Even if they did have some interest in it, it's not from having been saturated in African life from their youth or any other extended period of time living there, but more of the distant, phony, pandering variety (if at all). The bitterly zealous, overly righteous, harsh judgments of SJWs are coming full circle.

Marlon Brando isn't Italian. But Vito is. That's called acting. If they're African in the movie, they're African, not American, or British, African. What they are in real life is not a factor, because that's the point of pretending the film you're watching is real.

And Black Panther aimed its politics towards black people in general. Which is good. American blacks have been hogging the spotlight for black identity for too long. Fact is, slavery and hatred and bigotry has been thrown on the race in England, Canada, Brazil etc. and still does, but Americans have a way of thinking this sort of thing only happens to them. So I'm glad the Brits get to have some cake too.