How's it going?
I like my music.
What was that?
[CHUCKLES]
Did you like it, you didn't like it?
I liked it.
Yeah, it was good.
What music-- what did we just play for him?
What was that we were playing?
[INAUDIBLE]
Oh, yeah.
I couldn't hear what it was.
I know, I couldn't either.
Sometimes there's-- people are so excited to see you,
the music is wasted, because they're just playing it for you
to walk out, but we just hear screaming.
Yeah.
It's always good to have music and screaming
when you walk out.
Yeah.
You must get that a lot.
The last time you were here, it was before "Black Panther"
came out.
And it did OK, right?
People saw it.
A few people saw it in a few theaters.
Uh-huh Few awards, things like that.
Yeah, a little bit.
Just a little bit.
No, it just changed your life?
Yeah, it did.
It did.
I try to keep things the same, but in some places
you go, they recognize you a little bit.
Yeah.
I bet they recognize you a little bit.
But yeah, so congratulations on that, because it really
did well, and well-deserved.
It was a great movie, and you were great,
and I'm so glad that it got the recognition that it got.
Now, congratulations are in order for the sexiest--
you're in the sexiest--
I'm in there.
Yeah.
I just found out like 20 minutes ago.
I didn't know about this.
Wait until you see, OK?
You're in the issue.
Let's just take a look at the page, and let's find Chadwick.
Where am I?
Where am I in there?
[CHUCKLING]
Jesus.
[CHEERING]
Sexiest superhero.
Hey, I'm just glad to be in the number, you know what I mean?
So are you constantly having to stay
in shape because of these movies that you're doing?
Well, what I try to do is I try to change
for whatever the role is.
You can never really get out of shape
if you're playing a superhero, but you can change--
I've changed my size.
But you always still gotta be able to run five miles if you
need to, or whatever it is.
Yeah.
So you change your workout?
You change your workout, yeah.
What are you doing right now lately?
Mostly just cardio.
Mostly cardio, mostly just flexibility.
Yoga?
Yoga, yeah.
I think you have to change it according to, like--
for me right now, it's about flexibility.
You need that as you get older.
Not that you're getting older--
I am.
But I mean--
By the second.
Well, we all are, but that's the most important thing,
is to stretch and do things like that.
Are you working on a film right now or no?
I just finished not too long ago shooting
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" with Viola Davis, Glynn Turman.
Denzel Washington is producing.
So it's part of the August Wilson series.
I'm really excited about that.
Very cool.
And then you also were working with Spike Lee.
Spike Lee, yeah.
And where was that?
We shot in Thailand.
Oh, Thailand.
Amazing, right?
Yeah, it was amazing.
Had you been there before?
First time.
It looks amazing.
First time.
We shot in Chiang Mai, so it was a hot, blistering, sweaty Spike
Lee experience, you know?
I'm from New Orleans.
Don't tell me about hot and sweaty.
All right, let's talk about "21 Bridges."
Tell everyone what it's about and why it's called that.
This movie-- this is a sort of a throwback
movie to some of the movies we would see in the '70s.
You see them in the '90s too.
'80s and '90s.
Eight cops are killed.
I'm called in as a NYPD detective to find the killers.
We shut down Manhattan to sort of trap the man.
And there's some twists and turns throughout that.
It keeps you on the edge of your seat.
I'm proud of this movie.
And so it's called "21 Bridges" because there are 21 bridges
that you had to shut--
Well, at first we thought it was called "17 Bridges."
[CHUCKLING]
I'm serious.
The name of the movie at first when I got it was "17 Bridges,"
and we were about to shoot the speech that you just saw.
And they were like, we're not sure if it's actually 17.
And I was like, well, how many is it?
I'm going to say this in like 20 minutes.
Right.
So it turns out it's 21.
Seems like it wouldn't be--
In and out of the city.
Yeah.
All you have to do is count.
I don't know why people didn't know how many bridges there
were.
And I pride myself on doing the research, and I was like, uh,
I thought y'all would've known this.
I didn't have to go back and research.
But you had to shoot-- the entire thing takes place in one
night, and it's all night shoots.
Yes, yes.
So that must really--
to adjust to just shooting at night.
I will never pick a script up again and not look and see
how many nights it is.
You have to measure it out, because we-- literally, it
took me, I would say maybe five months
to get back on a regular sleep schedule.
And my dad used to work the night shift,
so I never understood what he was going through.
He would do swing shift and a night shift.
But man, that takes a toll on you after a while,
so I have a whole new respect for my dad
after doing this movie.
And then now you won't do a night shoot movie again.
Never again.
All right.
We're going to take a break, and you've
worked with a lot of people.
We're going to play a game to find out
how well you know those people.
We'll be right back.