Ryan Coogler is remembering how “freaked out” Disney executives were by Chadwick Boseman’s African accent on the set of “Black Panther.” While promoting his latest feature “Sinners,” Coogler told the hosts of “The Breakfast Club” (via People) that Boseman’s dedicated interpretation of the superhero was initially daunting to Marvel leadership.

“He was talking in an African accent,” Coogler said. “Disney execs came to see us on ‘Panther.’ It was week two and they pulled up and it was the [character] T’Challa accent and they were freaked out. I was like, ‘Don’t be freaked out. He’s working, man. He don’t turn it off until we wrap.’”

Boseman later died in August 2020 at 43 years old from colon cancer. Coogler recalled how Boseman’s “Black Panther” co-star Michael B. Jordan mourned the actor; Jordan played villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther,” and has worked with Coogler for years across “Fruitvale Station,...