{"id":10597,"date":"2018-05-09T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=10597"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T11:46:06","slug":"people-were-hungry-for-it-martin-freeman-on-black-panther-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=10597","title":{"rendered":"People were hungry for it: Martin Freeman on &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Los Angeles, May 9 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; has gone on to become a culture phenomenon in the last year with its impact growing deeper with time and actor Martin Freeman feels its record-breaking success reflects that the film was the need of the hour.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old actor, who plays CIA agent Everett K Ross in the Ryan Coogler-directed film, said the audience was yearning for a game-changer and that is the reason why they lapped up the movie without any delay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were hungry for it (the film). There were a lot of people who were dying to see it. It&#8217;s not often that people come up to you and say, &#8216;I&#8217;ve seen this film seven times. I take my mom, my dad.&#8217; So, that&#8217;s rare in itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As well as being a very good film, it also feels like a bit of a moment,&#8221; Freeman said in an appearance on PeopleTV&#8217;s &#8220;Couch Surfing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black Panther&#8221; is the first Marvel film to be led by a person of colour &#8211; Chadwick Boseman &#8211; and featuring a virtually all-black cast with Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Andy Serkis, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Touted to be a multi-layered masterpiece, the movie was an instant hit with its rich, sensitive portrayal of the African heritage and meaty roles for women characters.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, May 9 (DIN NEWS) &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; has gone on to become a culture phenomenon in the last year with its impact growing deeper with time and actor Martin Freeman feels its record-breaking success reflects that the film was the need of the hour. The 46-year-old actor, who plays CIA agent Everett K Ross in the Ryan Coogler-directed film, said the audience was yearning for a game-changer and that is the reason why they lapped up the movie without any delay. &#8220;People were hungry for it (the film). There&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10599,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions\/10599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}