Twenty years ago, Michael B. Jordan — who next plays U.S. Navy SEAL John Clark in Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Paramount feature was acquired by Amazon, where it bows April 30) — got his big-screen break in the 2001 Keanu Reeves film Hardball.
Jordan, 34, was just 13 when director Brian Robbins auditioned him to play Jamal, the eldest of a group of Chicago boys who make up a hopeless baseball team. "I remember him coming in the room and being super charismatic," says Robbins, 57, director of Good Burger (1997) and Varsity Blues (1999) and now president of Nickelodeon and Kids & Family Entertainment at ViacomCBS. "He was very confident — but not arrogant — and extremely likable." The team becomes a.
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