Last year, Chadwick Bosman, the actor of the Marvel superhero movie "Black Panther," died of cancer, and this year, another "elder" left the world. According to foreign media reports, Dorothy Steel, a licorice actor who played the tribal elder of the "Wakanda" kingdom in "Black Panther", recently died at his home in Detroit, USA, at the age of 95, and his spokesman confirmed the news on social networking sites.
Dorothy Steel worked in the tax office as a young man and retired to live a happy life of three generations of the same family, spending time bowling in his spare time. Later, she was invited by the director of the elderly center to participate in the stage play, and the other party felt that the old man had a talent for acting, so she found an actor's agent company for her. In 2015, Dorothy officially embarked on the road to acting at the age of 88.
In November 2016, Dorothy received a notice from the company to audition for a character in Black Panther. At first, she felt that she could not cope with the African accent, and she had little interest in comic books, so she refused. Later, she was persuaded by her grandson to change her mind, and finally auditioned successfully to join "Black Panther".
In Black Panther, Dorothy plays one of the tribal elders wearing two large gold earrings, with full dialogue: "We don't need a warrior. We need a king" (we don't need warriors, we need a monarch) to impress the audience.
After the release of "Black Panther", the old people also became popular, and their popularity soared. Whenever she went for a walk in the park downstairs from her home, fans asked her for selfies and group photos.
Although Dorothy's appearance in "Black Panther" is only a dozen seconds, she is fully prepared for the role. To overcome her African accent, she spent hours every day flipping through videos of former South African President Mandela's speeches to learn.
She also used other small tricks to replace the character, such as thinking about the education level of the tribal elder. Why do you have such a powerful ability? What did she do for Wakanda? When everyone was in place to shoot, she instantly became a tribal elder.
In 2019, she also participated in the movie "Old Lady Cheerleaders", and her last work in her life was to serve as a village elder in the movie "Brave Game 2: Fight again".
In this old man's body, Xiaobian remembered some grandmothers who had run the dragon set in Zhou Xingchi's movie, their appearance was not good-looking, not even mediocre, and even passers-by would not look at it when walking on the street.
But even if they only have one scene, they will use their best thoughts to bring a line to the extreme for a few seconds.
In the industry of actors, some people are God to appreciate food and eat, and they have been "drama masters" since they were young, and they are born with good acting skills. There are also people who are good at their parents' genes, have a delicate face, and can gain countless fans just by brushing their faces to read the numbers.
But the most admirable thing is that the mediocre-looking vegetarian can make people impressed with a shot, which is the most bullish capital of the actor. I hope that actors like Dorothy in the world can realize their dreams.