Hi, my friend. What's up? It feels good to be in here. It's so good to see you. Yeah, thank you. I haven't seen you
in a long time. It's been a minute. Yeah. It's been a minute. But it's always good. It's always good
to talk with you. I can see you've
let yourself go. But-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] --right? Yeah. Yeah. So I'm in black trying
to slim, slim, slim cut. I love that outfit. That's fantastic. Thank you. So as I said, here's-- New York Times called
you one of the greatest actors of 21st century. I agree. Time magazine said
one of the most 100 influential
people in the world-- I agree-- and currently
sexiest man alive. I agree. OK. Yeah. Three for three. I'll take that. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. It's been a crazy year. Yeah, it's been a crazy year. But you do look really good. Please tell me that you at
least gained the quarantine 15 like we did. I did, like, a quarantine 10. You did 10? Yeah, I did a solid 10, I did. Because you take such
good care of yourself. What's your cheating go-to
food when you're bad? When I was bad, I
would probably do-- I love carbs. So I did a chicken
cheesesteak sub. I did pizza and pasta. So that's my trifecta
that I like to go-- And you usually
don't have carbs? Not that much, not
all in one sitting. I'll usually do carbs earlier in
the day so I could work it off. Yeah. But more rice and salads and
vegetables and stuff like that. Yeah. You're so disciplined. I have to be. I know. We all have to be,
but we don't do it. But you really do. And you were sending-- I was going to ask if people
were sending food to you, but you were actually
helping and sending food to your family, right? I was. That was one of my pastimes. I learned to make a lot of
pasta dishes-- carbs again-- while I was home. So I couldn't really
see them that often, so what I would do is, late
night, me and my boy Bryce-- we would make all these
fresh pestos and carbonaras-- Wait, you would make it? You cook? Yeah, I would cook at
the house, and I would-- Wow. I love cooking. My mom and my dad--
they had a home catering business growing up. So as soon as I was old enough
to see over the counter, they had me to work just
prepping and helping and stuff like that. So I would put them
in these Mason jars. I printed out a little logo. We called the
restaurant Jordano's. And then I would drop
it off at the house. Oh, you could have dropped
some off at our house. I don't know why-- I will do that next time. All right. Next time. For sure. So no wonder you stayed
at home for so long, because you lived with your
parents for a long time. You just almost literally
moved out, what, two years ago? Two years ago. And I'm-- never looked back. No, yeah. [CHUCKLING] Never looked back. But yeah, it feels good to
have my own space, working-- construction is getting
ready to happen. So I'm already prepared for the
next year and a half of my life to not go as planned when
it comes to construction. Well, yeah, if they
say a year and a half, it's going to be three years. Three years-- [INAUDIBLE] --at least. I'm already going through-- Double the money. --permits and approvals
and all that good stuff. It's a lot. Well, you'll be
off working, right? So you won't be home
during construction. Exactly. That's the plan. That's the way you do it. That's the plan. Yeah. Yeah. You should work three
movies in a row. I think that might be the case. Yeah. So how old is your nephew now? He is a year and four months. That's a cute age. Yeah, he's mobile now. He's figuring out his legs work. You take your eye off him. And in one second,
he's out of here. He's gone. He's great. That actually probably
is a good thing for you, that you have a nephew,
because your mother probably was pushing for
somebody to have a kid. He bought me some time. So Linux definitely gave me-- yeah, gave me a
little break there. But your dad's name
was Michael A. Jordan. Yes. You're Michael B. Jordan. Uh-huh. So then your son will
be Michael C. Jordan? I am breaking that
cycle right there. Really? Yeah. You're not going to do-- It's too much. It's like the pressure I had
to live up to my dad's name. And I'm not going to
put that on my kid. No, I'm going to give
him his own identity. Aw. Yeah. That's sweet to think of that. Yeah, he's got to-- Very sweet of you. --walk his own shoes. All right. So here you are on the cover
of Men's Health magazine. And it looks like
waves are coming in. I'm assuming sand was
in your pants a lot. Yes. That looks great. Actually getting the shot-- we had to wait for the
waves to come every time. There's a lot of sand
everywhere, actually. [CHUCKLES] Yeah, because inside
that, that's not a calm-- No. You're like, there's
sand in my crack. There's sand. Yeah. And the water wasn't
as warm as it looks. No. So uh-uh. No. Uh-uh. So-- So OK. You're doing a handstand. And now, I would think that
you could do a handstand. But is someone holding you up? Someone's holding you up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who was holding you up? It was about three people
holding me up on that one, to be perfectly honest. It's-- I had to be fair. --still very brave because no
one looks good upside down. And the older you get,
when you're upside down, gravity and your cheeks-- it's not a good
look to be upsi-- I don't know who came
up with that idea. I blame Leo, actually,
the photographer. Leo insisted on me
taking that shot. Well, it's good. But here's what I was
really impressed with. You working out,
which-- and everyone knows how strong you are. But you're underwater. Is this in the ocean or a pool? This is the ocean. The ocean. It was in the ocean, yeah. With-- what is that, a rock? Yeah, we found these
stones that were laying on the bottom of the ocean. And I saw these workouts
that these surfers actually do to work on their conditioning
and their breathing and stuff like that. And they'll carry these
stones underwater. So I was like, why don't
we just recreate that? Running? Or, what were you
doing with them? Were you jumping out of
the water with them or just running? Just running on those. Just to get air, I would have
to jump up to the surface, just to get a breath, and
then go back down. And we would try to
find the right framing. So this was probably one
of the toughest exercises that I think I've ever done,
because you're in the ocean. You've got fish and sea
urchins and random things. I know, when I'm
in a pool, and a-- you get-- random hair or
something touches you, you just start to
freak out a little bit. Yeah. But in there, you've got seaweed
and all types of crazy stuff. But it was cool. What kind of pool are you
in that there's random hair? What-- Well-- or a leaf or
something like that, I think. OK. All right. [CHUCKLING] I don't know where
you're swimming. All right, Michael. We have to take a break. More with Michael after this. This past Super Bowl, you
did an Alexa commercial. Yeah. And that was fun. That was so much fun. That was really fun. Do you know who did the
Alexa commercial last year? No. Me and Portia. OK. We did Alexa last year. OK. You did it this year. They asked us, last
year, when we did it, would you get in the bathtub
at the end fully clothed? And we said, no, let's put that
off for the next person to do. Yes. [CHUCKLES] Well,
thank you for that-- Yeah. Yeah. --because being fully
clothed in a bathtub-- it seems cool. It's a little awkward. A little awkward. But it was fun. The spot was really,
really funny. The spot was fantastic. It was. I loved it. All the outtakes
and the bloopers that we have behind the scenes-- it was really incredible. I bet. Yeah. I bet. Hey, not only are you getting
ready to shoot Creed III-- Yes, ma'am. --but you are directing. I am. [APPLAUSE] You've never directed before? I've never directed
a film before-- maybe little commercials or
little spots here and there, but this is the first
time that I'm really getting behind the
camera in a big way to do my first
full-length picture. What a huge undertaking this is. Yeah. How do you feel? I'm excited. I'm not really nervous about it. It's a character that I know. It's a world that I know. It's the first time I'm playing
a character three times. And it's a story-- I've been daydreaming about
it for such a long time, since the first Creed,
that there's seeing what's been in my head on the page
now and actually bringing everything together-- it's
a pretty cool feeling. Where are you shooting? We're shooting hopefully
Los Angeles, maybe Atlanta. But it's kind of an LA
story this time around. So-- And you've prepped for
it, obviously, already? We're still prepping. We're still in prep. We start in November. We start in November. So right now, I'm in soft prep. But we're prepping. Fantastic. I know tWitch is, as we all
are, a huge fan. tWitch-- Absolutely. --what kind of questions
you got for Michael? Yeah, I wanted to--
because man, just, we've been following
the journey. And everything that
you're involved in, your production
company is involved in, seems so intentional. So I just wanted to know how
much you think about legacy when you're thinking about
what projects to take on and which direction to take. Oh, man. First of all, thank you. Yeah, legacy is big for me. We're on this Earth for
a short amount of time and always wanting to do things
that leaves the world better than it was when I got here-- a blueprint-- doing things
that matter that say something, but also fun. Sometimes you've got
to hide the medicine in the food on certain
things on certain projects. So the movies that I play in
or produce, creating projects for other talent-- you're defined by who
you help, who you put on. So that's something
that I've always taken into consideration also. So-- Love it. [INTERPOSING VOICES] Thanks, man. I hope you guys enjoy this one. It's going to be good. I can't wait to see--
it's going to be so good. We have more with
Michael after this. We're back with
Michael B. Jordan. And that is a clip
from Without Remorse, which is a thriller from the
start-- the entire thing. But tell everybody about it. It's a Tom Clancy
novel, Without Remorse. We follow the story of
John Kelly, who basically is loyal to his country,
loyal to the military, and loyal to his family as well. But his family gets
taken away from him, and we see him go on a
mission to get some answers. And he doesn't really
stop until he does. And there are some crazy stunts. There's a stunt
that I thought you have to really be
doing this, because you can't make it look like this. You set a car on fire-- Mm-hmm. --with someone in it. Mm-hmm. You get in the car-- Yeah. --with that person
with the car on fire. Uh-huh. How do you have insurance? How is anybody letting you work? Trust me. I had to beg the
studio to let me do some of this stuff
for that reason alone. But no, we had an
incredible stunt team. We really spent time
working on these stunts, really getting everybody
comfortable to feel like I could handle
it and not get hurt. But there's one thing
you could train. You could train for fight
scenes or even underwater holding your breath. But it's hard to train to
get into a burning car. You've just got to do it and
not think about it so much. So I just didn't think about it. I was loose on the set, having
fun, having a good time. And they were like, all right. Ready to go? Let's go. And I just went for it. But even the person
who's acting-- that's quite a job to take on,
to be the guy that's going-- oh, I get in a burning car. No, exac-- Yeah. And then you
mentioned underwater. How long-- Yeah. Because you're underwater a lot. How long can you
hold your breath? At that time, maybe
about three minutes. Right now, maybe not so much. No? But for about three minutes. And the way Stefano
wanted to shoot it-- we wanted to shoot long takes. And I did maybe 95% of
everything that you guys see. So the underwater
stuff was definitely one of the harder
things I had to do. One of the fun things you did
was you went on the Autobahn. How fast did you drive? You drove a Lamborghini? Yeah, I did the
Lamborghini on that one. I was about 230 miles an hour? Yeah, 230. What's that feel like? Things moving really,
really slow when you go that fast, actually. Really? Yeah, you would think that
things are whizzing by. But at a certain
point, everything just starts to slow down. And you can really-- you
get tunnel vision, in a way. But it was fun. Wow. It was a lot of fun. OK. Then I'll go that fast. I thought-- it seems
like it'd feel fast, but [INAUDIBLE] feels slow. All right. We're going to play
a game after this. We'll be back. Hi, I'm Andy. Ellen asked me to remind you
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