'Creed III': Michael B. Jordan Reflects on Ryan Coogler's Mentorship During Directorial Debut (Exclusive)
etonline.comMichael B. Jordan's directorial debut has been a long time in the making! The 36-year-old pulled double duty as director and star for the highly anticipated third installment of the spinoff franchise, , and according to critics, he did the thing.«It feels good, it feels like people are getting the work, you know?
They understand what we're trying to say, what we are doing and it feels good to be understood a little bit,» the star tells ET's Nischelle Turner. «Especially when it doesn't always happen this way, not even in the third installment.
I just didn't have expectations of the love for what it was, but we use that as fuel and we just try to be truthful and tell the best story we could.»The film picks up four years after the events of finding Adonis (Jordan) and his wife, Bianca (Tessa Thompson), comfortably successful in their life as they happily raise their daughter, Amara (Mila Davis-Kent) — who was born in the previous installment — in Los Angeles.
Amid this bliss, Adonis is surprised by the arrival of an old friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors).The duo was arrested and taken to a Los Angeles youth detention center when they were younger, but Adonis is the lucky son of a former heavyweight champion who was taken in by his father's widow.
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