{"id":18138,"date":"2026-03-11T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/at-92-dorothy-steel-got-a-role-in-black-panther\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:05:10","slug":"at-92-dorothy-steel-got-a-role-in-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/at-92-dorothy-steel-got-a-role-in-black-panther\/","title":{"rendered":"At 92, Dorothy Steel Got a Role in &#8216;Black Panther&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCindy, I\u2019m not interested,\u201d I said, trying not to sound too irritated at my agent. \u201cI\u2019m not auditioning for some dumb comic-book movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Dorothy,\u201d she said. \u201cI wish you\u2019d at least think about it. 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My grandson, Niles, was coming over, and I was making sweet potato pie, his favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, if someone had told me that at age 90 I\u2019d be arguing with an agent about a movie role, I would have thought they were flat-out crazy. Me playing a tribal elder in some make-believe African country called Wakanda? Who\u2019d ever heard of such a thing?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"float:right\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-28577\" alt=\"Dorothy Steel; Matt Kennedy \u00a9 2017 MVLFFLLC. TM &amp; \u00a9 2017 Marvel. All Rights Reserved\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dorothy_steel_embed.jpg\" width=\"324\" \/><figcaption>       Dorothy Steel as the Merchant Tribe<br \/>\n       Elder in <em>Black Panther<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was enough to make me think about retiring from acting. I\u2019d had my fun, been in some commercials\u2014even a soap opera, <em>Saints and Sinners, <\/em>for a season on Bounce TV; a short film, <em>Black Majik<\/em>; a full-length movie called <em>Daisy Winters<\/em>; and a made-for-TV movie, <em>Baby\u2019s First Christmas<\/em>. That was plenty. I\u2019d never planned on being an actress in the first place, never in a million years.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing started one day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/people-helping-people\/americas-angels\/how-one-dog-changed-life-at-a-senior-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">senior center<\/a> when I was 82. They were putting on a play called <em>It\u2019s Christmas <\/em>and looking for volunteers. <em>Why not? <\/em>I thought. I figured I could squeeze in the rehearsals between my bowling leagues, church and cooking special meals and desserts for Niles and my son, Scott. They might be grown men, but I never tired of spoiling them.<\/p>\n<p>I got the part of a sassy teenager. Can you imagine? I don\u2019t know what got into me, but on stage I <em>became <\/em>that girl\u2014wisecracking, self-centered, with attitude to spare. I started ad-libbing my lines. Folks in the audience were cracking up. I fed off their energy. It was great.<\/p>\n<p>The whole experience was so out of character for me. I\u2019d always thought of myself as shy, more interested in watching others than being in the spotlight. \u201cWhy are you always analyzing everyone and everything?\u201d my older sister would ask.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d worked most of my career for the IRS, a divorced <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/how-we-help\/complementary-booklets\/inspired-to-support-single-moms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single mother<\/a>. The last 14 years, I\u2019d worked as a senior revenue officer, assigned to the Virgin Islands. After I retired, I traveled. Everywhere I went, I watched people, studying the way they spoke, noting how some slouched while others held themselves at attention.<\/p>\n<p>At 82, I settled in Atlanta to be close to family. That\u2019s where I found the senior center. After that first play, I was in a couple more, just for fun. A man came to one of our productions and afterward introduced himself as Greg Alan Williams. He was an actor and dean of an acting school called Actors\u2019 Breakthrough. He said that if any of us wanted to study there, we could for half price.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was interested and told my sister and nephews, who ridiculed me for such an idea. My son said, \u201cGo for it.\u201d Scott, by then retired, had been an award-winning cameraman for WSB, a local TV station. He offered to drive me. Folks in the class joked, \u201cHere comes Scott. Driving Miss Daisy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was the oldest person there by far. The instructor took us through the basics, teaching us how to get into character, not to overdo it, that it should feel natural, picking up on the little quirks and idiosyncrasies that make a person real. The very things I\u2019d been studying for years. We were advised to get a tablet, a good phone, a <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/angels\/angels-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook account<\/a>, some head shots and an agent. I signed up with Cindy Butler at iSubmit Talent Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Not long afterward, a casting director called her with a role he thought I\u2019d be perfect for: Mother Harris in <em>Saints and Sinners. <\/em>That was the beginning of my professional acting career at 88 years old.<\/p>\n<p>I was still worked up over that conversation I\u2019d had with Cindy. A movie called <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/black-panther-stars-daniel-kaluuya-and-winston-duke-on-the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Black Panther<\/em><\/a>? Honestly, what was she thinking? I put the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/positive-as-pie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pie in the oven<\/a> and sat down to read while I waited for Niles. By the time he arrived, I\u2019d nearly forgotten about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Niles had finished off a piece of pie and I was clearing the table when for some reason it popped in my head. \u201cCindy, my agent, called with the craziest idea,\u201d I said. \u201cMe in some movie called <em>Black Panther. <\/em>I told her no way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Niles\u2019s mouth dropped open. \u201cAre you kidding?\u201d he said. \u201cGrandma, this is Marvel Comics. A billion-dollar company. You know, like <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/family\/grandchildren\/power-manger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spider-Man<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I frowned, suddenly wishing I\u2019d never brought it up. \u201cI <em>don\u2019t <\/em>want to do cartoons,\u201d I said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re wanting me to have some African accent. I don\u2019t even know how to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandma, you\u2019re always talking about how we need to step out in faith,\u201d Niles said. \u201cThis is huge. Either man up or shut up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The nerve of him! <\/em>\u201cNiles, don\u2019t you be telling me what I should be doing,\u201d I said. Niles gave me one last imploring look and scooted out the door to his truck. \u201cAs if he thinks he\u2019s gonna <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/parenting\/children\/how-to-teach-your-kids-about-faith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teach me something about faith<\/a>,\u201d I grumbled.<\/p>\n<p>I sat down and opened my book, but I couldn\u2019t focus on the words. I started thinking about how I\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/movies-and-tv\/guideposts-classics-actress-marla-gibbs-on-stepping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepped out in faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1958, when Scott was 10, I was hospitalized with an abdominal pregnancy. I was five months pregnant. There was no saving the baby, and the chances of my surviving were slim. My heart stopped during surgery, and the doctors had to give me two shots directly into it to start it beating again. I have scars on my ankle, where they gave me all the B-positive blood they had on hand, and two white marks on my chest, where they gave me the shots to my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Back in my hospital bed, I heard my doctor tell the nurse, \u201cDon\u2019t let her suffer. I know she\u2019s going to die.\u201d My insides were so tangled up, I couldn\u2019t even eat a teaspoon of soup or drink water without unbearable pain. All I could do was lie there and stare at the hospital room wall.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/daily_devotional\/gods-grace-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Hezekiah<\/a>, who lay dying and prayed to the Lord to give him 15 more years of life. The Lord had. So I prayed, \u201cLord, give me eight more years, until my son is grown, and I will bless your name all my days.\u201d I heard an inner voice: \u201cGet up from your hospital bed, and walk out to the street. Then come back in, and I will heal you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I got up out of bed and made my way down the stairs to the street. It might have looked as if I were stepping out on nothing leaving the hospital, but as the Bible says, the everlasting arms of the Lord were supporting me. I came back inside, exhausted. Slowly, my health turned the corner. I was healed.<\/p>\n<p>I got divorced not long after that and struggled to support Scott on my own. One day I drove from Detroit, where we lived, to Flint because I felt led there. I happened upon an IRS office and went in and <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/faith-prayer-devotions\/stories-of-faith-faith-prayer-devotions\/prayers-for-job-seekers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked a supervisor for a job<\/a>, a position his secretary said didn\u2019t exist. I became the first black female promoted to revenue officer in the Flint office.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been blessed; I surely had. But there\u2019d been so many times when all I could do was trust in God. <em>He\u2019ll always see you through. <\/em>I\u2019d been telling Niles that since he was a baby, hadn\u2019t I? Why was I so intent on not auditioning? Was I afraid of making a fool of myself? As if I had some big image to protect. Niles, my agent\u2014they thought I\u2019d be perfect for the part. What would it hurt to try? It wasn\u2019t as if I had any realistic chance of landing it.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/how-nelson-mandela-found-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mandela<\/a>. <\/em>The word came to me with crystal clarity, like a message meant just for me. Nelson Mandela. Now there was someone with a distinct African accent! I got on YouTube and watched several of his speeches, listening to the pronunciation, where the emphasis fell. After a few days, I began to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>I was watching a speech one night when Scott came over for a meal I\u2019d made. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d he said. I told him the whole story. \u201cWhat are you waiting for?\u201d he said. I didn\u2019t need to hear any more.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, I called Cindy. \u201cI\u2019d like to give that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/true-stories-of-answered-prayer\/she-prayed-her-way-into-a-role-in-the-marvel-film-black-panther\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther<\/a> <\/em>part a try,\u201d I said. When the script came over, I reviewed my lines. There weren\u2019t that many. But the character was in a key scene where the lead actor faces a ritual wrestling match to prove himself worthy of being king. And in a palace scene where the elder offers words of wisdom: \u201cWe\u2019ve protected our borders for thousands of years, and now it\u2019s your turn to lead. We don\u2019t need a warrior. We need a king.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I repeated the lines over and over. When I thought I had it down pretty well, I asked Scott if he could tape me doing it. He had a home studio, and I thought I nailed it on my first take. \u201cLet\u2019s do it again,\u201d Scott said. Lordy. He made me do those lines 10 times. He narrowed it to two, then picked one. An hour after Cindy sent off the tape, the casting director was on the phone with her. \u201cWho is this old woman?\u201d they said. \u201cWe want her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I called Niles first thing. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/quote\/44460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I got the part<\/a>!\u201d I said. \u201cAnd I want to thank you for what you said. I didn\u2019t like it much at the time, but Lord knows I needed to hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandma, I knew you could do it!\u201d Niles said. That gave me goose bumps. He wasn\u2019t the only one who\u2019d believed in me. God had been opening doors for me my whole life, preparing for the role I was born to play.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Panther <\/em>went on to become one of the biggest movies in worldwide ticket sales ever. It still seems as if I dreamed the whole thing. And to think I got to rub shoulders with actual movie stars like Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/remembering-chadwick-boseman-10-inspiring-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chadwick Boseman<\/a>. Now when my agent calls, I listen. 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