Michael B. Jordan: Exceeding His Dreams

Oprah's Super Soul

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4.6 • 33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Award-winning actor and producer Michael B. Jordan discusses his skyrocketing career and why he says his life has already "exceeded his dreams.” Michael’s breakout performance came in 2013’s “Fruitvale Station,” directed by visionary Ryan Coogler. The duo teamed up again for the “Rocky” sequel, “Creed,” and then for the mega-blockbuster “Black Panther,” now nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Michael says after playing superhero villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther,” he went to therapy. “As a man, I think we get a lot of slack for … what it is to be masculine,” he says. “I don’t really subscribe to that because I feel like everybody needs to unpack and talk, whether it’s [with] a therapist or a close friend or family member.” Michael is forging his own path by starting a production company called “Outlier Society Productions,” which guarantees inclusion in all of its casts and crews.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.1	Michael B. Jordan!
0:31.1	Wow. Good to see you. I want to know if the dream you dreamed about having this career
0:46.1	has already exceeded the dream or are you living the dream? Did it look like this?
0:52.1	It exceeded the dream. It exceeded the dream. At 32 in a few days, you've exceeded the dream.
0:57.1	Yeah, I have a related birthday, by the way. Happy. Thank you.
1:00.1	No problem.
1:01.1	So now you got a dream of a bigger dream. Yes, I think over time it's always been small success,
1:07.6	the small success, the small success, and you set these goals and you know, God has been
1:11.5	giving me everything I want at an extreme rate. So it's like, okay, I got to recalibrate.
1:15.6	I got to figure out what the next benchmark is. What's the next set of goals that I want
1:19.6	to accomplish? So at 32, it's been a little difficult.
1:23.0	Are you ready to dream in no dream? I am. I am. I think that's so interesting because
1:28.4	you say God's already exceeded any expectation that you had. Yeah.
1:33.6	And when you are starting out, you're just happy to get a role, right? Yes. Yes.
1:38.0	Yes.
1:39.0	A lot of people don't understand, I guess, the process of acting and kind of, you know, the audition
1:42.2	process. Yeah.
1:43.2	Or, you know, when you first start out, you kind of are at the mercy of what you're casted
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