Sterling K Brown on Black Panther, taping up his basketball shoes and Paradise

Sterling K Brown says being portion of Black Panther was a "cultural moment" that allowed him to beryllium "part of history" - and he'd leap astatine the accidental to go portion of the Marvel satellite again.

The 48-year-old actor, who's presently starring successful the mind-bending play Paradise, told Sky News: "I retrieve speechmaking that publication - they don't springiness it to you - you person to work it and past crook it backmost oregon your hands pain disconnected oregon thing similar that…

"I retrieve thinking, this is simply a taste moment. This is truthful big, not lone for achromatic America but for achromatic radical crossed the globe to spot themselves beforehand and centre successful the largest, astir zeitgeisty popular taste instrumentality successful the satellite close now, the MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe].

The superhero movie won 3 Oscars - Marvel's archetypal ever Academy Awards - including a triumph for costume plan and champion accumulation design, the archetypal successful some categories for women of colour.

Brown goes on: "I conscionable privation to beryllium a portion of history. It was history. It was awesome."

The Missouri-born star's vocation trajectory has been impressive, from "living beneath the poorness line" to being nominated for an Oscar, he's ever been single-minded successful his pursuit of acting.

He explains: "I didn't person a hard sound life. We grew up successful a house. My ma was a schoolteacher. My dada was a market clerk. All our needs were met.

"But I would portion my hoops shoes up if the sole came isolated due to the fact that that fixed them. And my ma got huffy astatine maine 1 time, she's like, 'You know, we tin bargain you shoes?' I was like, 'Yeah, but I fixed them. What's the large deal?'"

He says making his surviving done his trade was ever his focus, adding, "I cognize that's a luxury that's not afforded to a batch of people. The information that it's gone my way, I'm incredibly thankful for."

A three-time Emmy winner, The People V O J Simpson: American Crime Story saw him summation nationalist attention, followed by a play successful The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, an occurrence of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the multi-award-winning This Is Us.

'I've got bully taste'

When his relation successful American Fiction earned him an Oscar nomination, helium insists helium didn't spot it coming, saying: "I conscionable knew it was a large story, a large script, and I wanted to beryllium a portion of it."

He goes on: "They're each benignant of game-changers. People volition springiness maine credit. I'll instrumentality recognition for having bully taste, but you ne'er cognize erstwhile lightning is going to strike, right?"

A fatalist, helium says: "I permission it successful the hands of the beingness and conscionable say, 'If you privation maine to measurement here, I'll measurement determination and immoderate happens, happens'."

Now he's starring the formed of Disney+ play Paradise, playing Agent Xavier Collins, a antheral charged with protecting a second-term president - played by James Marsden - successful a serene assemblage of high-net-worth individuals.

Brown admits the relation came with obligations: "There is simply a antithetic level of work erstwhile you're 1 connected the telephone sheet. I deliberation radical bash look to you to assistance acceptable the code of what the situation is going to beryllium like, and I don't caput that."

The brainchild of Dan Fogelman, champion known for his enactment connected This Is Us and Only Murders In The Building, Paradise is simply a execution enigma with thing overmuch bigger underneath.

'Billionaires connected camera'

Impossible to elaborate connected further without giving distant spoilers, it's capable to accidental the archetypal occurrence throws up a twist fewer volition spot coming.

Despite assorted parallels with the existent governmental climate, Fogelman says helium came up with the thought implicit a decennary ago, but concedes the timing is "certainly unusual".

Fogelman tells Sky News: "We're openly seeing billionaires connected camera having a large manus successful government. And portion wealth and wealthiness person ever been a origin successful things down the scenes, it's precise retired beforehand and centre close present successful a mode that the amusement openly discusses [and] things astir the situation and clime change."

Brown excessively says the themes are prescient: "The satellite is unpredictable and a small spot nutty and a batch of radical are connected borderline arsenic to what is next. I don't cognize if it's crossed the world. I decidedly cognize that it's successful the United States for certain.

"I deliberation the amusement successful a precise unusual way, is benignant of asking the aforesaid questions like, 'All right, we're successful caller territory close now. I person nary thought what happens next. I'm a small frightened astir that.'"

He goes on: "People are going to gully each sorts of conclusions and inferences and comparisons. I volition permission them to gully immoderate they privation due to the fact that if I was an assemblage member, I would too."

The archetypal 3 episodes of Paradise are disposable connected Disney+ now, with caller episodes dropping each Tuesday.