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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

Extended Interview: Michael B. Jordan

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michael B. Jordan talks with Tracy Smith about being pushed out of his comfort zone by performing two characters – identical twin brothers – in Ryan Coogler's horror film "Sinners." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.0

This is Lee Cowan. You may know Michael B. Jordan for the film Black Panther or those

1:14.6

Creed movies. Well, now he's talking with Sunday morning's Tracy Smith.

1:19.1

So let's talk sinners.

1:21.1

Yes, ma'am.

1:22.1

All right, so when Ryan Cougler shared this idea with you of playing two different parts, two different people.

1:29.3

What was your initial reaction?

1:31.3

I'm gonna do what? I think it was a little, um, a little bit of anxiety, I think, a little bit of nerves, but then equal amount of excitement at the challenge of it all.

1:50.0

I think I've seen twins betrayed on screen before by the same actor. Some have been amazing.

1:58.0

Some maybe not so much. I think getting the right technique down

2:02.3

of how to actually shoot it,

2:04.7

started to run through my head, okay, how are we gonna do this?

2:08.0

And I think that's something that Ryan also knew

2:12.8

was gonna be good for me, which is a challenge

2:15.1

and to kind of push me out of my comfort zone. And this was the hardest thing that I've ever done to date.

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