Angela Bassett came up with funny 'Black Panther' scene where Winston Duke barks at Martin Freeman, says director Ryan Coogler

• "Black Panther" features a funny moment where M'Baku (Winston Duke) barks at an outsider to Wakanda.
• Director Ryan Coogler said that this moment was inspired by Duke's costar Angela Bassett.

Angela Bassett came up with a funny "Black Panther" scene where the Jabari bark at an outsider to their land, director Ryan Coogler said.

On Monday, Ryan Coogler delivered BAFTA's 2022 David Lean lecture in London, an annual program to inform the public about filmmaking.

During a Q&A after the lecture, Coogler brought up a particular scene in the first "Black Panther" movie where Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o), Queen Ramonda (Bassett), Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright), and Agent Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) visit Jabari Land, the remote area in the Wakandan mountains.

The group attempts to ask the Jabari leader, M'Baku (Winston Duke), for support to take back the Wakandan throne from Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). When Agent Ross, who is an outsider to Wakanda, tries to speak up, the Jabari starts barking threateningly and M'Baku jokingly threatens to feed him to the Jabari children, before revealing they are actually vegetarian.

During Monday's event, the "Black Panther" director told the audience that Bassett helped come up with the funny barking moment while they were filming the scene.

"It was a scene in 'Black Panther' where Angela didn't have much to do," Coogler recalled. "When we first ran through it, the scene wasn't working. Angela only had a line or two in that scene, if any at all. And she was actually able to see, coming from the sidelines, what the problem was. She was able to pull me to the side and diagnose it and we ended up coming up with a great solution."

Coogler continued: "It actually gave birth to a really great moment with Winston when he's barking at [Ross]. It came from an observation that Angela had watching from the side of the scene."

Coogler went on to say that he loves working with "great actors" that understand writing because they can help solve problems in the script.

On Monday, Bassett became the first actor to be nominated for a Golden Globe for a role in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. She was nominated for a supporting actor award for her role as Queen Ramonda in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."