Black Panther Stars Discuss Highly Anticipated Film.
VAUSE: Well Marvel's Black Panther is opening in wide release, it's begin I think and could break all the box office records.</s>SESAY: Here, just look at the film and why its star say it is so much more than just a movie.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nearly 52 years after he first appeared on the cover of this Marvel comic, Black Panther is making a fierce return.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Black Panther is projected to earn an estimated $165 million or more for the U.S. opening weekend alone according to Hollywood's major tracking services. But it's greatest impact may not be at the box office.</s>CHADWICK BOSEMAN, ACTOR: If anybody believes that Africa didn't have empire, didn't have architecture, didn't have art, didn't have science, you see it in this movie.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Critics are calling this film "A cultural milestone" and "Radically different" not only because it has a predominantly black cast, but because it's breaking ground off the big screen as well. Hundreds of Go Fund Me Campaign from across the world have raised more than $400,000 to help kids see the movie this month. And to say they're excited is an understatement. The cast is equally excited about the film's scope and significant.</s>MICHAEL B. JORDAN, ACTOR: It's an honor, it's humbling, and very surreal that this is like kind of a major introduction, almost a reintroduction of like black fantasy sci-fi, mythology, this like I said generation growing up. I can't wait for Halloween and see these little -- like everybody dressing up as the Dora Milaji and Black Panther and Killmongers and stuff like that. I think it's going to be -- it's super important and impactful for their -- for our culture moving forward, I think it's extremely important. So, yes, it means a lot that we're inspiring the youth.</s>LUPITA NYONG'O, ACTOR: I've never been a doll before and then now there's dolls coming out, Nakia dolls and Okoye dolls and it's such a thrill because first of all I remember when I was younger my mother couldn't even find black dolls for us. And so the fact that there are going to be plenty because of the kind of reach that Marvel has and that is going to be our faces, I mean it's a humbling and actually a little bit exciting and terrifying at the same time. But how lovely to live at a time when kids can have that.</s>WINSTON DUKE, ACTOR: I'm so excited, profoundly excited that they're going to get to like ingest, consume this kind of content before the world puts their own politics on them and their bodies, and their experience, and what they could be. They're going to get to see this and see people who look like them, to have agency and story, that's exciting.</s>DANIEL KALUUYA, ACTOR: And in fact they're not going to see -- especially they're going to see</s>DUKE: Yes, let's keep going.</s>SESAY: What a moment.</s>VAUSE: It looks fun.</s>SESAY: More NEWSROOM LA in a moment, stay with us.