'Walking away from Black Panther was challenging'

The 19-year-old actor, however, said she had to make the tough decision as she believed her lighter complexion would be a disconnect to play a character which was a part of the world of actors playing Africans in the Ryan Coogler-director film.

"One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from Black Panther. I got really, really close and they were like, 'Do you want to continue fighting for this?' And I was like, this isn't right.

"These are all dark skin actors playing Africans and I feel like it would have just been off to see me as a biracial American with a Nigerian accent just pretending that I'm the same colour as everyone else in the movie," Stenberg said, according to DigitalSpy.

"That was really challenging, to make that decision, but I have no regrets. I recognise 100 per cent that there are spaces that I should not take up and when I do take up a space it's because I've thought really, really critically about it and I've consulted people I really trust and it feels right," she added.

The Hunger Games actor did not, however, reveal the part she could have played in the film.

Black Panther is the first Marvel film to be led by a person of colour – Chadwick Boseman – and featuring a virtually all-black cast with Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, among others.