- That fashion plate himself, Mr. Michael B. Jordan.
- Man, what's going on? You're too find, far too kind.
- It's a part of my job,
I don't believe any of it (laughs)
No, I do. You're the best, man.
Congratulations on everything. - Thank you, thank you.
- Man, Black Panther, seven nominations here.
- We got seven? - Most of any film or show.
Killmonger killed it. - Yeah.
- Talk to me a little bit about
just sort of how the fans reacted to this character.
I mean, people walked out talking about the villain.
That doesn't often happen.
- I mean it doesn't.
I mean, Ryan Coogler, you know,
incredible director, writer.
He put together this character
that we wanted to challenge people,
we wanted to make it hard on the audience
to really decide who really had the better argument.
Who was right, who was wrong,
but I think they both had valid arguments.
It was almost like two sides of a coin
with me and T'Challa, and yeah,
it was fun to play that character
and kind let loose a little bit.
- A bunch of nominations tonight,
but we don't have a best shirtless category anymore
so you were robbed of another one I feel like.
Is that why you took off your shirt in the film,
'cause you were like 'I'm gonna get that
MTV shirtless performance.' - How'd you know?
Who told you that? - I have my sources.
You know what, maybe not this year.
- We can bring it back just for you.
- We' might have to bring it back.
- We're gonna call is the Michael B. Jordan Award.
- You know what, you heard it here first.
You heard it here first.
- I'm gonna get my word in on that.
I mean look, it's a comic book universe.
- Yes. - Spoiler alert.
He's dead, but you never know, or no?
Does it feel like one and done with that character?
- I mean, I'm a fan of Marvel, of comic books period.
You know that, everybody knows that,
so if there was ever an opportunity
for me to come back and join this universe
and work with, know you, Joe Russo, or Kevin Feige,
and Vitoria and everybody over there at Marvel,
re-team with Ryan, you know of course I would.
- Not to get serious for a second,
but I noticed you production company, you adopted
the Inclusion Rider. - That's right
- Which is a really important thing.
Can you talk a little bit about what that means,
and why you guys chose to do that for you company?
- I mean it's, honestly for me as a person of color,
being in this industry, it's not even a second thought.
You know, it's something I would've done anyway
if it wasn't an Inclusion Rider
in a structured form as it is,
you know, people of color, women,
from the LGBT community,
and people with disabilities.
I would always be thinking about that
and trying to include them in my projects,
so the fact that there's a structure and a form,
something I can include in contracts and deals,
et cetera, et cetera,
I'm gonna be a part of that movement for sure.
- You know how big a fan I am of Creed.
- Yeah. - You have wrapped,
you were just telling me, Creed 2,
man, tell me about this.
You have a different director,
but you obviously have Sly back at the bolg,
you have Dolph Lungren back in there.
- Ryan's still floating around in the back,
he's producing as well. - Okay.
- All the same players are around,
just in different positions.
- Different vibe on this one?
Is it a different kind of a film?
What can you say theme wise, or what this is all about.
- Theme wise, I think a little bigger.
You know, in the world and scope.
I think the intensity is kinda raised up a couple notches.
I think we have a true antagonist.
You know, in this movie.
- And this is Drago's son, right?
- Yeah, and some growth.
I think some growth, man.
It's always fun to kinda bring characters back
and kinda move them to the next level.
It's my first time coming back to a sequel for anything,
so, Steven was an amazing director.
He really was up to the challenge,
stepping into to some big shoes to kinda fill,
and I think he made his own lane,
and he put his own fingerprints on it,
and made it different and unique?
- Is there a musical montage of you training in Siberia
with pulling horses, like Rocky Horror?
- It wouldn't be a fighting movie
without some type montage.
I think we got some cool ones,
and some things you haven't seen before,
so I'm really excited about showing you guys pretty soon.
- Alright, what's the next gig for you,
do you have some time down right now?
- I got a couple weeks down,
I start prep for Just Mercy pretty soon,
going down to Atlanta.
I'm playing Bryan Stevenson.
- Is this with Coogler again? - No, no.
This is with Destin Cretton. - Oh, nice.
- Yeah, exactly.
So I'm teaming up with him,
and we're going down to Atlanta to do this
court room thriller, you know what I'm saying?
So, it's gonna be, it's gonna be really good.
Bryan Stevenson's an amazing human being,
so being able to portray him and tell his story
is extremely important to me.
- Last thing before we've got Tiffany Haddish,
the one and only, hosting tonight.
- Yeah.
- Feel like you could be fair game,
I don't know, I feel like anybody in the crowd is,
but I don't know.
Do you get nervous at a show that the host is gonna
- Come at you? - Yeah, come at you.
- I mean, it's definitely fair game.
It's definitely fair game.
At this point I could just laugh it off
and just sink into my seat just a little bit.
But I think it's gonna be fun.
She's gonna be great,
I think everything'll be fine,
I think it'll be a lot of fun.
- Amazing. I'm so happy for all your success,
the one and only Michael B. Jordan, guys.
- My man Josh, the man.
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