

“I auditioned to be in the Black Panther. Black Panther), who is played by Letitia Wright. It’s kind of a fake audition but it’s real.”įor Black Panther, Jackson went out for Shuri, the younger sister of T’Challa (a.k.a. They’re not even real sides that are going to be in the film. So that was one of the reasons ,” she says. They liked me, but everybody in that high school looked so much older that I looked like a middle schooler. While Jackson doesn’t know if she’s auditioned for Riri, she can confirm that she’s auditioned for one of the Spider-Man films and the first Black Panther movie. They don’t even tell you what the character is about. I don’t know if I’ve auditioned for it,” she says.” Because I have auditioned for Marvel things, but they don’t tell you what you’re auditioning for. Though Jackson inspired Riri, she can’t confirm whether she auditioned for her. Riri, who first appeared in the Iron Man comics, will make her on-screen debut in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which sees actress Dominique Thorne star as the character. Hopefully one day I can actually be the character.”

Not a lot of people can say that Marvel took them for a character. “Because people were tweeting it to me, I was like, ‘There’s no way I inspired something Marvel.’ People were like, ‘No, they really were inspired by you for the character.’ That was such a great moment for me. “I thought it was fake when I first saw it!” she tells STYLECASTER. Ironheart, was based on her in 2016, she thought the news was fake. Not many people can say they’ve inspired a Marvel superhero, but when Skai Jackson first heard that Riri Williams, a.k.a.
