As we previously reported, the idea behind the epic buddy film starring Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o was created thanks to a Twitter user who pointed that a pic of them at fashion week looked like a still for some buddy crime film.

“They look like they’re in a heist movie, with Rihanna as the tough-as-nails leader-master thief and Lupita as the genius computer hacker,” a fan wrote. Well that idea turned into a fullfledged movie!

Lupita recently spoke with Entertainment Tonight about the project: “Like, Black Panther is being embraced because people are really hungry for this kind of film, and that movie with me and Rihanna and Issa [Rae] and Ava [DuVernay] is another one of those examples where people want to see something like themselves, and something different something they’re not being offered yet, and I’m honored to be a part of that conversation….

Courtesy of Entertainment Tonight.

As far as her role in Black Panther: “The story was something that was really important to all of us, and we needed to get our bodies ready for it so our workouts were extreme!” she shared. “We did a special kind of workout. We would workout to live drumming by a great drummer. And he would sit there and drum as we worked out, so that brought in the African flavor, you know? And that was incredible, it totally changes your sense of movement, you know, the core of where you move from — it just shifts. And it was a lot of different martial arts.”