Inside Michael B. Jordan's Private World

Following a four-year stint as troubled teen Reggie on All My Children, he moved to L.A. in 2006 at the age of 19. It was there that he truly began to breakthrough, first as Friday Night Lights quarterback Vince Howard, then Parenthood's Alex and finally as real life police brutality victim Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, the award-winning indie that paired him with Ryan Coogler, the director he'd re-teamed with for Creed and the $1.3 billion-earning Marvel smash Black Panther. 

And now that he's made it big, his hopes and dreams have grown right along with him. 

"World domination," he answered when asked his ultimate goal during a 2018 NPR interview. 

He'd like to "tell honest stories and good movies," he told Vulture in November 2018, something he's handily achieving by piling up roles in 2018's Fahrenheit 451, last year's Just Mercy, based on death row lawyer Bryan Stevenson's memoir, the upcoming Wrong Answer, about the Georgia standardized testing scandal, and a Thomas Crown Affair remake, each project in line with his color-blind approach to accepting jobs. "Me playing that role is going to make it what it is," he explained to Issa Rae in a 2018 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors presented by Shutterstock series as his reasoning for going after parts written for white actors. (Jordan as Superman? We endorse it.) 

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