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The Treatment

Michael B. Jordan: ‘Without Remorse’

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor and producer, Michael B. Jordan on the video game “Rainbow Six” as inspiration for his newest role

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0:00.0

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

0:14.6

Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's always good to talk to a man who lives his life without remorse. He's starring the

0:21.3

film Without Remorse on Amazon. It's Michael B. Jordan. Michael always good to have you back.

0:25.9

Always, man. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Good. No, no. My pleasure. Because you have a line

0:30.2

early on in this movie that could have been a line in like every other Michael B. Jordan movie the

0:35.1

last few years, which is we served a country that didn't love us back.

0:39.8

Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely a lot in there.

0:44.7

You want me to elaborate on that one?

0:47.1

If you would, yeah, because I think that it's one of these things we talked about the last few things you did when you were last year.

0:53.3

You were here playing

0:54.5

Brian Stevenson talking about that movie, and he could be saying the same thing, Oscar Grant

0:59.3

could be saying the same thing, Eric Kilmonger could be saying the same thing, you know what I mean?

1:04.0

Yeah. You know, you take a character like John Kelly and, you know, and we change the lens

1:09.3

of that through a black man, you know. There's things

1:12.2

that inherently are looked at differently, you know, it's a different tone, you know, there's

1:18.2

the circumstances and perspective changes. So, like, you know, the feeling of that, you know,

1:24.6

and these scenes have to be reflective, you know. So, so in that moment where

1:30.2

Kelly is going through what he's gone through, no spoilers, I guess, on this, but, you know, after,

1:35.9

you know, the tragedy kind of takes place in his life, you know, he feels betrayed. He feels like,

1:41.9

you know, he gave everything and was fighting for something. And now he,

1:48.0

he's on, he's on a mission, you know, and he needs to get some answers. So, you know, I think

1:54.2

he's putting the power back in his hands at a moment. I felt, you know, you know, John feels like

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