Michael B. Jordan Feels Like He's "Getting Beat Up By [His] Wildest Dreams"
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Vanity Fair
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Michael B. Jordan is so busy right now he'd actually benefit from having a twin to help lighten the workload. The actor, a self-proclaimed workaholic, is nominated for his first Oscar for his performance as twin brothers in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and he's also in post-production on a project he's both directing and starring in, The Thomas Crown Affair. Rebecca caught up with him after the Academy Nominees Luncheon to talk about why Sinners was the hardest role of his career, how therapy has helped him as an actor, and how he protects his personal life. Plus, he answers a slew of rapid-fire questions about movies and filmmaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, it's Rebecca. |
| 0:02.6 | We're doing a mailbag episode soon, and we need to hear from you. |
| 0:06.5 | Do you have any predictions about the Oscar race? |
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| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:44.8 | My guest today is the incredible Michael B. Jordan, the actor, director, and producer who's nominated for his first Oscar this year for the dual roles of Smoke and Stack in Ryan Cougler's Sinners. |
| 0:56.5 | Sinners might seem like an unlikely Oscar film. It's a genre movie for one, playing with horror |
| 1:01.8 | tropes. Plus, it came out all the way back in April of last year, well before the Oscar race |
| 1:07.1 | usually kicks off. But the film has had an extraordinary reception and momentum |
| 1:11.8 | ever since last spring, and it's racked up a historic 16 nominations. It's also excellent, |
| 1:18.6 | thanks in no small part to Michael B. Jordan's performance as both of the Smokestack Twins, |
| 1:23.5 | who opened up a juke joint in rural Mississippi in 1932. |
| 1:31.5 | I caught up with Michael last week after the Academy's nominees luncheon. |
| 1:35.0 | We talked about the technical difficulty of acting against yourself, |
| 1:38.3 | his long career, from all my children to the Oscars, |
| 1:41.1 | and about his upcoming directorial project, |
| 1:43.0 | a remake of the Thomas Crown Affair. |
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