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It’s unusual for actors to go off script. It’s usually frowned upon considering the amounts of money being spent on particular scenes with principal actors and extras. So it’s nice to hear that an unscripted moment from actors not only surprises a director, but makes it into the final film.

In the commentary track for the recently released Digital version of Avengers Infinity War, directors Joe and Anthony Russo discuss the making of the film and how the Black Panther actors and Wakanda extras started to do war chants that were unscripted.

Both Black Panther and Infinity War were being filmed at the same time in Atlanta and this made it easier for the actors to move from set to set. Panther stars Chadwick Boseman and Winston Duke began to use the chants that were introduced in the Ryan Coogler directed Black Panther. According to the brothers, they found it “incredibly cool”.

“We did not know — because we had not seen Black Pantherbecause they were still making Black Panther — about their war chants,” Joe Russo notes on the commentary. “And they just started doing it.”

Anthony Russo agrees.

“And after watching Winston doing it in the opening of the sequence, it led to the responding war cry that T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) leads,” Joe Russo says. “A year ahead of time, we had no idea ‘Wakanda forever!’ was going to be amazing.”

As fun as it was seeing T’Challa and M’Baku in action in Infinity War, it’s more fun knowing that they were able to incorporate those moments to enhance their performances.

Avengers Infinity War is available now on Digital and will be on Blu-Ray August 14^th.