Step into the ring with michaelb4jordan, Rolling Stone's March 2023 cover star. The actor-director has a firm spot on top of Hollywood’s A-list. So why does he still think he’s got so much to prove? Story/Photos:
Apparently, however, a possible cheat day is not justification enough, because even after announcing it, he hesitates, reading the menu options with the concentration of a man completing an admissions exam. Thinking and rethinking. Precisely how much cheating should one even do on a cheat day? He considers in silence some more.
So perhaps his eating is not just his eating. Perhaps it is part of his job, his vision, a manifestation of his drive. It is certainly at the center of a body transformation he undertook to originate the role of Adonis back in 2015, that is, to put it mildly, impressive. For a year, he lived and trained like a boxer, subsisting on chicken and broccoli, lifting weights, sparring, running, getting busted in the face.
Raised in Newark, New Jersey, to a mother and father who still attend Hollywood events by his side, Jordan was an energetic, rambunctious child. Jordan wasn’t afraid to enjoy his early success. When he was back in Newark, he joined the drag-racing scene at Avenue P in the BMW he bought with his industry checks, teaching himself how to drift by just watching others do it.
Soon he is reading from a crumpled sheet of paper — some reflections he has jotted down on what a trailblazer is, how he’s learned from the best, honoring those who came before, etc., etc. He seems only mildly invested in these platitudes. It’s like he wants to say something but cannot find the words for it. This changes when he mentions his parents. He looks longingly at the table in the front of the house, where we are all seated, and he comes off the script.
But it is the depth of Jordan’s performance that gives the film its heart. In his hands, Oscar is sympathetic, and beautiful, rough, and annoying. In one moment, kind of a dick. And the next, the embodiment of everything in all of us that just wants to be good, just wants to be loved. It makes sense that Killmonger threw Jordan for a loop. In real life he’s the most affable, joke-cracking, polite person you can imagine, surrounded by his closest friends and loved ones. He actually lived with his parents until just a few years ago. His sister describes how much he still seems like a kid when he plays with her three-year-old son.
ON THE WAY TO the supper club, I just so happened to be driving down Santa Monica Boulevard behind Jordan’s Ferrari. Before I knew it was him, I noticed how the driver was weaving in and out of traffic. Not dangerously, per se, but excitedly. Like someone who had just gotten tremendous news and couldn’t wait to tell a friend. Like someone who still had a little bit of drag racing in his blood.and was ready to celebrate.
I ask him if there’s a point at which he could ever see himself feeling like he had accomplished enough.He struggles to explain this. FOR MUCH OF THE DINNER I find myself thinking about this concept of potential. Why would it be important for a person to reach theirs? This is what I mean by potential. Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Tyre Nichols. We not only lose the people, we lose their potential, the possibility of what they could have become. This is not just for people who are killed but for those who witness violence, experience complex and debilitating trauma, are dumped into the criminal-justice system before they are old enough to drive. All of that potential, untethered from its source, floating around.
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