A couple years back when Janelle Monae was in Atlanta making her groundbreaking album Dirty Computer another team of talented artists were also in the city working on what would go on to be another groundbreaking and wildly popular project: Black Panther.
And director Ryan Coogler, Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan actually all visited her in the studio.
Flash forward to 2020 with Black Panther 2 in the works and Janelle now has her hopes set on joining the cast, playing one of the most legendary X-Men ever: Storm.
“I definitely have thrown it out there," Janelle told Empire. "One of my dreams has always been to play Storm. I don’t know if she [is even featured] in Black Panther 2, but it would be a dream to have her in it. I don’t know where they are with that. A lot of women have played Storm and they’ve done an exceptional job and I would love to be in that line of artists and get to do Storm justice.”
Until then, we’re rooting for you, Janelle.