Chadwick Boseman on the cover of Esquire, Summer 2018.

The Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman, covers Esquire’s Summer 2018 issue, wearing a Saint Laurent butterfly print bomber jacket.

About the film, he says: “Studios will very often tell you that movies with a black lead are not going to work overseas. That was the thing for me—this means something everywhere in the world. It could actually change how studios respond to [black] movies. You can no longer say definitively, Black movies don't work [outside of the U. S.].”

Check out the rest of the shoot below…