Michael B. Jordan

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of two decades in Hollywood, Michael B. Jordan has made a name for himself in television series like The Wire and Friday Night Lights, and in movies like Fruitvale Station, Creed and of course the billion-dollar blockbuster Black Panther. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actor to talk about his impressive career, his new leading role as a Tom Clancy Navy SEAL, and his current reign as People’s “Sexiest Man Alive.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.3	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.5	I've got a great one for you with.
0:11.2	I'm just going to come out and say it.
0:12.4	The coolest guy in Hollywood.
0:14.0	I know these things are subjective, but maybe this one isn't.
0:16.6	It's Michael B. Jordan.
0:18.7	He's done so much in his young career.
0:21.6	He's currently starring in an Amazon Prime movie called Without Remorse.
0:25.5	It comes from the Tom Clancy universe, of course, Jack Ryan, and now John Kelly, a former
0:31.0	Navy SEAL played by Michael B. Jordan, who's basically trying to stop a conspiracy to start
0:37.4	a war between Russia and the United States.
0:40.0	Incredible movie.
0:41.1	He's also a producer on the film.
0:43.1	His production company is called Outlier Society.
0:46.3	They work to make movie sets more inclusive and more diverse.
0:50.1	So he has a big say in that now with his clout that he has earned in Hollywood by playing
0:54.4	parts going all the way back to the wire.
0:56.9	Remember him on the wire?
0:57.9	He was a teenager playing a character named Wallace, moved up to Friday night lights on NBC,
1:04.2	Fruitvale Station, Creed, of course, Black Panther, where he played Killmonger, opposite
1:09.2	his good friend, the late Chadwick Boseman, the two of them, by the way, go back.
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