Hunk Djimon Hounsou would love to be the Black Panther

io9 got the info from the hot actor himself. He would love to be T'Challa

We had a one-on-one interview with Hounsou about Julie Taymor's The Tempest (which we'll be running early next week) and we had to ask him about Black Panther. Hounsou says he's still eager to take on the role, and the animated series was aimed at building interest in a live-action Panther movie. "That was the idea: using it as a leverage to tell a feature story," he says.

Given that Marvel is doing an Avengers movie, and hopefully will do multiple Avengers sequels, we wondered if Black Panther could appear in one of those. But Hounsou says he sees T'Challa as starring in his own stand-alone film instead.
Playing T'Challa on screen would be fun, adds Hounsou:

He's a king, he's a man of the people, and he's very powerful — he challenges himself throughout his kingdom, and I think that's rare when the king puts his own life [on the line] and challenges [people] to beat him, in order to see [who's] the best out there... He's really cool. He comes from a world in Africa that is cool, and has all those minerals and it's very exciting. It's just a matter of time for that to be realized.

I can see him in this role.