BECAUSE FIT IS THE NEW RICH
ONE DAY IN EARLY 2020, Tenoch Huerta was on a Zoom call with Ryan Coogler, the director behind Creed, Black Panther, and its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – the subject of their meeting. He was offering Huerta a role.
“He was telling me something like, ‘So, the shaman gives them a drink, they drink it, then they jump into the ocean, and –’ … And then he was frozen,” says Huerta. This time he's Zooming with me from his home in Mexico City, and he lurches towards the camera, pausing to act out those agonising seconds or minutes or aeons Coogler was frozen. “Then he came back, and he was like, ‘So, that's it. What do you think?’ And I was like, ‘I'm in, I'm totally in, I love it!’”
