{"id":286236,"date":"2025-10-11T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/letitia-wright-reveals-who-encouraged-her-to-direct-debut-film\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:04:56","slug":"letitia-wright-reveals-who-encouraged-her-to-direct-debut-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/letitia-wright-reveals-who-encouraged-her-to-direct-debut-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Letitia Wright reveals who encouraged her to direct debut film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/gqRQyGV9XB4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Letitia Wright reveals who encouraged her to direct debut film\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gqRQyGV9XB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s best known as Shuri &#8211; the warrior princess of Black Panther and Wakanda Forever<\/p>\n<p>Now, actor Letitia Wright tells us how Ryan Coogler and Denzel Washington encouraged her to direct her debut short film, Highway to the Moon &#8211; a &#8216;love letter to young Black boys&#8217; and her creative response to London&#8217;s knife crime crisis.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s best known as Shuri &#8211; the warrior princess of Black Panther and Wakanda Forever Now, actor Letitia Wright tells us how Ryan Coogler and Denzel Washington encouraged her to direct her debut short film, Highway to the Moon &#8211; a &#8216;love letter to young Black boys&#8217; and her creative response to London&#8217;s knife crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":286237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[129366,131924,135413],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-286236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-best","tag-known","tag-shes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Letitia Wright reveals who encouraged her to direct debut film | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Letitia Wright reveals who encouraged her to direct debut film for free, here on News ISC. 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