Look at my face!’ gasps Letitia Wright, momentarily losing her poise. We are at a photoshoot and the actor has taken a quick break to watch the trailer for her forthcoming film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, for the first time. ‘That’s frickin’ amazing,’ she says, transfixed by her phone screen, as the camera pans over the mountains of the fictional kingdom of Wakanda and the stirring beats of the soundtrack play. ‘Okay, I’m done, back to work.’
We’re in a studio in Tottenham, close to where Wright grew up. Dressed in an oversized white suit that, she says, fits her ‘androgynous vibe’, she is in a playful mood, pulling goofy faces and cracking jokes.
