From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm sitting across with a young man who's happening to star in three films, I think, have a unique perspective in our culture.

There are three films about the collateral damage of young African-American men growing up without fathers.

Those films would be Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.

His newest film is Creed, too.

It's Michael B. Jordan.

First of all, thank you so much to doing this.

I appreciate you, man.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, my pleasure. But, you know, I was talking to writing about this.

And this is unique in the film, the history of film, that there are three films about

what happens to young black men without fathers.

And you got to star in all three of that.

Yeah, man.

It's, you know, I think when we first started out doing Fruitville Station, I mean, at least I didn't have it in my mind that that's what our next three projects, what they would be and what they would be about, you know, kind of breaking into that perspective and giving, showing that example of what that's like.

But Fruit Bo Station with Oscar, you know, Oscar Grant showing the, you know, police brutality at a level, you know,

of, of police shootings, um, really set the tone moving forward for what the, the public,

the people were going to see. And that's a lot of like reality, you know what I'm saying,

of these young brothers getting, getting shot. So kind of be the face of that and be able to kind of express that frustration, you know what I'm saying, and that kind of, you know, and give them some humanity, you know what I'm saying, give Oscar

some humanity back. It meant a lot. But, you know, playing those three guys, playing Oscar,

then playing Adonis, and then playing Eric. I mean, these are three, this is really something

that, as people of color, we see all the time, but we don't see this in movies.

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