Hi, my friend.
What's up?
It feels good to be in here.
It's so good to see you.
Yeah, thank you.
I haven't seen you in a long time.
It's been a minute.
Yeah.
It's been a minute.
But it's always good.
It's always good to talk with you.
I can see you've let yourself go.
But--
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
--right?
Yeah.
So I'm in black trying to slim, slim, slim cut.
I love that outfit.
That's fantastic.
Thank you.
So as I said, here's--
New York Times called you one of the greatest
actors of 21st century.
I agree.
Time magazine said one of the most
100 influential people in the world--
I agree-- and currently sexiest man alive.
I agree.
OK.
Yeah.
Three for three.
I'll take that.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
It's been a crazy year.
Yeah, it's been a crazy year.
But you do look really good.
Please tell me that you at least gained the quarantine 15
like we did.
I did, like, a quarantine 10.
You did 10?
Yeah, I did a solid 10, I did.
Because you take such good care of yourself.
What's your cheating go-to food when you're bad?
When I was bad, I would probably do--
I love carbs.
So I did a chicken cheesesteak sub.
I did pizza and pasta.
So that's my trifecta that I like to go--
And you usually don't have carbs?
Not that much, not all in one sitting.
I'll usually do carbs earlier in the day so I could work it off.
Yeah.
But more rice and salads and vegetables and stuff like that.
Yeah.
You're so disciplined.
I have to be.
I know.
We all have to be, but we don't do it.
But you really do.
And you were sending--
I was going to ask if people were sending food to you,
but you were actually helping and sending
food to your family, right?
I was.
That was one of my pastimes.
I learned to make a lot of pasta dishes-- carbs again--
while I was home.
So I couldn't really see them that often,
so what I would do is, late night, me and my boy Bryce--
we would make all these fresh pestos and carbonaras--
Wait, you would make it?
You cook?
Yeah, I would cook at the house, and I would--
Wow.
I love cooking.
My mom and my dad-- they had a home
catering business growing up.
So as soon as I was old enough to see over the counter,
they had me to work just prepping and helping
and stuff like that.
So I would put them in these Mason jars.
I printed out a little logo.
We called the restaurant Jordano's.
And then I would drop it off at the house.
Oh, you could have dropped some off at our house.
I don't know why--
I will do that next time.
All right.
Next time.
For sure.
So no wonder you stayed at home for so long,
because you lived with your parents for a long time.
You just almost literally moved out, what, two years ago?
Two years ago.
And I'm-- never looked back.
No, yeah.
[CHUCKLING]
Never looked back.
But yeah, it feels good to have my own space, working--
construction is getting ready to happen.
So I'm already prepared for the next year and a half of my life
to not go as planned when it comes to construction.
Well, yeah, if they say a year and a half,
it's going to be three years.
Three years--
[INAUDIBLE]
--at least.
I'm already going through--
Double the money.
--permits and approvals and all that good stuff.
It's a lot.
Well, you'll be off working, right?
So you won't be home during construction.
Exactly.
That's the plan.
That's the way you do it.
That's the plan.
Yeah.
You should work three movies in a row.
I think that might be the case.
Yeah.
So how old is your nephew now?
He is a year and four months.
That's a cute age.
Yeah, he's mobile now.
He's figuring out his legs work.
You take your eye off him.
And in one second, he's out of here.
He's gone.
He's great.
That actually probably is a good thing for you,
that you have a nephew, because your mother probably
was pushing for somebody to have a kid.
He bought me some time.
So Linux definitely gave me--
yeah, gave me a little break there.
But your dad's name was Michael A. Jordan.
Yes.
You're Michael B. Jordan.
Uh-huh.
So then your son will be Michael C. Jordan?
I am breaking that cycle right there.
Really?
Yeah.
You're not going to do--
It's too much.
It's like the pressure I had to live up to my dad's name.
And I'm not going to put that on my kid.
No, I'm going to give him his own identity.
Aw.
Yeah.
That's sweet to think of that.
Yeah, he's got to--
Very sweet of you.
--walk his own shoes.
All right.
So here you are on the cover of Men's Health magazine.
And it looks like waves are coming in.
I'm assuming sand was in your pants a lot.
Yes.
That looks great.
Actually getting the shot--
we had to wait for the waves to come every time.
There's a lot of sand everywhere, actually.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, because inside that, that's not a calm--
No.
You're like, there's sand in my crack.
There's sand.
Yeah.
And the water wasn't as warm as it looks.
No.
So uh-uh.
No.
Uh-uh.
So--
So OK.
You're doing a handstand.
And now, I would think that you could do a handstand.
But is someone holding you up?
Someone's holding you up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who was holding you up?
It was about three people holding me up on that one,
to be perfectly honest.
It's--
I had to be fair.
--still very brave because no one looks good upside down.
And the older you get, when you're upside down,
gravity and your cheeks--
it's not a good look to be upsi--
I don't know who came up with that idea.
I blame Leo, actually, the photographer.
Leo insisted on me taking that shot.
Well, it's good.
But here's what I was really impressed with.
You working out, which-- and everyone
knows how strong you are.
But you're underwater.
Is this in the ocean or a pool?
This is the ocean.
The ocean.
It was in the ocean, yeah.
With-- what is that, a rock?
Yeah, we found these stones that were laying
on the bottom of the ocean.
And I saw these workouts that these surfers actually
do to work on their conditioning and their breathing and stuff
like that.
And they'll carry these stones underwater.
So I was like, why don't we just recreate that?
Running?
Or, what were you doing with them?
Were you jumping out of the water with them or just
running?
Just running on those.
Just to get air, I would have to jump up to the surface, just
to get a breath, and then go back down.
And we would try to find the right framing.
So this was probably one of the toughest exercises
that I think I've ever done, because you're in the ocean.
You've got fish and sea urchins and random things.
I know, when I'm in a pool, and a--
you get-- random hair or something touches you,
you just start to freak out a little bit.
Yeah.
But in there, you've got seaweed and all types of crazy stuff.
But it was cool.
What kind of pool are you in that there's random hair?
What--
Well-- or a leaf or something like that, I think.
OK.
All right.
[CHUCKLING]
I don't know where you're swimming.
All right, Michael.
We have to take a break.
More with Michael after this.
This past Super Bowl, you did an Alexa commercial.
Yeah.
And that was fun.
That was so much fun.
That was really fun.
Do you know who did the Alexa commercial last year?
No.
Me and Portia.
OK.
We did Alexa last year.
OK.
You did it this year.
They asked us, last year, when we did it,
would you get in the bathtub at the end fully clothed?
And we said, no, let's put that off for the next person to do.
Yes.
[CHUCKLES] Well, thank you for that--
Yeah.
--because being fully clothed in a bathtub--
it seems cool.
It's a little awkward.
A little awkward.
But it was fun.
The spot was really, really funny.
The spot was fantastic.
It was.
I loved it.
All the outtakes and the bloopers
that we have behind the scenes--
it was really incredible.
I bet.
Yeah.
I bet.
Hey, not only are you getting ready to shoot Creed III--
Yes, ma'am.
--but you are directing.
I am.
[APPLAUSE]
You've never directed before?
I've never directed a film before-- maybe
little commercials or little spots here and there,
but this is the first time that I'm really
getting behind the camera in a big way
to do my first full-length picture.
What a huge undertaking this is.
Yeah.
How do you feel?
I'm excited.
I'm not really nervous about it.
It's a character that I know.
It's a world that I know.
It's the first time I'm playing a character three times.
And it's a story--
I've been daydreaming about it for such a long time,
since the first Creed, that there's seeing what's
been in my head on the page now and actually bringing
everything together-- it's a pretty cool feeling.
Where are you shooting?
We're shooting hopefully Los Angeles, maybe Atlanta.
But it's kind of an LA story this time around.
So--
And you've prepped for it, obviously, already?
We're still prepping.
We're still in prep.
We start in November.
So right now, I'm in soft prep.
But we're prepping.
Fantastic.
I know tWitch is, as we all are, a huge fan. tWitch--
Absolutely.
--what kind of questions you got for Michael?
Yeah, I wanted to-- because man, just,
we've been following the journey.
And everything that you're involved in,
your production company is involved in,
seems so intentional.
So I just wanted to know how much you think about legacy
when you're thinking about what projects to take on
and which direction to take.
Oh, man.
First of all, thank you.
Yeah, legacy is big for me.
We're on this Earth for a short amount of time
and always wanting to do things that leaves the world better
than it was when I got here--
a blueprint-- doing things that matter that say something,
but also fun.
Sometimes you've got to hide the medicine
in the food on certain things on certain projects.
So the movies that I play in or produce, creating projects
for other talent--
you're defined by who you help, who you put on.
So that's something that I've always
taken into consideration also.
So--
Love it.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
Thanks, man.
I hope you guys enjoy this one.
It's going to be good.
I can't wait to see-- it's going to be so good.
We have more with Michael after this.
We're back with Michael B. Jordan.
And that is a clip from Without Remorse,
which is a thriller from the start-- the entire thing.
But tell everybody about it.
It's a Tom Clancy novel, Without Remorse.
We follow the story of John Kelly, who basically
is loyal to his country, loyal to the military,
and loyal to his family as well.
But his family gets taken away from him,
and we see him go on a mission to get some answers.
And he doesn't really stop until he does.
And there are some crazy stunts.
There's a stunt that I thought you
have to really be doing this, because you
can't make it look like this.
You set a car on fire--
Mm-hmm.
--with someone in it.
Mm-hmm.
You get in the car--
Yeah.
--with that person with the car on fire.
Uh-huh.
How do you have insurance?
How is anybody letting you work?
Trust me.
I had to beg the studio to let me
do some of this stuff for that reason alone.
But no, we had an incredible stunt team.
We really spent time working on these stunts,
really getting everybody comfortable to feel
like I could handle it and not get hurt.
But there's one thing you could train.
You could train for fight scenes or even underwater
holding your breath.
But it's hard to train to get into a burning car.
You've just got to do it and not think about it so much.
So I just didn't think about it.
I was loose on the set, having fun, having a good time.
And they were like, all right.
Ready to go?
Let's go.
And I just went for it.
But even the person who's acting--
that's quite a job to take on, to be the guy that's going--
oh, I get in a burning car.
No, exac--
Yeah.
And then you mentioned underwater.
How long--
Yeah.
Because you're underwater a lot.
How long can you hold your breath?
At that time, maybe about three minutes.
Right now, maybe not so much.
No?
But for about three minutes.
And the way Stefano wanted to shoot it--
we wanted to shoot long takes.
And I did maybe 95% of everything that you guys see.
So the underwater stuff was definitely
one of the harder things I had to do.
One of the fun things you did was you went on the Autobahn.
How fast did you drive?
You drove a Lamborghini?
Yeah, I did the Lamborghini on that one.
I was about 230 miles an hour?
Yeah, 230.
What's that feel like?
Things moving really, really slow when
you go that fast, actually.
Really?
Yeah, you would think that things are whizzing by.
But at a certain point, everything just
starts to slow down.
And you can really-- you get tunnel vision, in a way.
But it was fun.
Wow.
It was a lot of fun.
OK.
Then I'll go that fast.
I thought-- it seems like it'd feel fast,
but [INAUDIBLE] feels slow.
All right.
We're going to play a game after this.
We'll be back.
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