Super Soul Special: Michael B. Jordan: Exceeding His Dreams

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Original Air Date: February 13th, 2019 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,” which was 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.” Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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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.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now. Michael B. Jordan! Wow, good to see you. I want to know if the dream you dreamed about having
0:44.5	this career has already exceeded the dream or are you living the dream? Did it look like this?
0:52.1	exceeded the dream. It exceeded the dream at 32 and a few days. You've exceeded the dream.
0:57.3	Yeah, I have a related birthday by the way. Happy, thank you. No problem, no problem. So now you
1:01.3	got a dream of bigger dream. Yes, I think over time it's always been small success, the small success,
1:08.3	the small success, and you said these goals and you know, God's been giving me everything I want at
1:13.0	an extreme rate. So it's like, okay, I got to recalibrate, I got to figure out what the next
1:16.8	benchmark is. What's the next set of goals that I want to accomplish? So at 32 it's been,
1:22.6	it's been a little bit more important. Are you ready to dream in no dream? I am. Yeah, I am. I think
1:26.6	that's so interesting because you say God's already exceeded any expectation that you had.
1:33.0	And when you are starting out you're just happy to get a role, right? Yes, yes. A lot of people
1:38.8	don't understand I guess the process of acting and kind of, you know, the audition process. Yeah.
1:42.7	Or, you know, when you first start out you kind of are at the mercy of what you're casted for.
1:48.1	Yeah. But when you get into position to be able to say no to things or because another thing
1:53.9	with acting you become way more famous and popular than you are financially stable.
2:01.0	So, so, so people think you're richer than you actually. Yeah, for sure. Particularly in the beginning.
2:05.3	Right, especially in the beginning. Especially in the beginning. Coming from New York, New Jersey,
2:08.1	they see you on, you know, on a commercial or, you know, our print ad and then, you know,
2:11.8	the Sunday newspaper and they think you're a millionaire and you're good to go. Like, let me borrow
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