American actor Michael B. Jordan revealed that he went to therapy after one of the most important roles of his career.<\/p>\n
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” the 38-year-old actor reflected on his role as Erik Killmonger in the 2018 film “Black Panther.”<\/p>\n
Killmonger is the villain in the film, a Black Ops mercenary and cousin of T’Challa, a character played by the late Chadwick Boseman. The character attempts to conquer Wakanda, but is ultimately defeated and dies.<\/p>\n
Jordan revealed that after filming, he found it difficult to emotionally distance himself from the role.<\/p>\n
“It stuck in my mind for a while. You know, I went to therapy and talked about it. I found a way to relax, I think at that point I was still learning that I needed to relax from the character,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the therapy, although motivated by that specific role, also brought other benefits.<\/p>\n
“It evolved into a broader conversation and self-discovery,” he said.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that he considers therapy necessary today, and recommended it especially to men.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s good for them to go and talk. It’s something I’m not ashamed of at all and I’m very proud of. It’s definitely helped me try to be a good communicator and a well-rounded person, inside and out,” the actor added.<\/p>\n
By the way, this isn’t the first time the actor has linked therapy to his work. His “Creed” co-star, Tessa Thompson, revealed that they went to couples therapy together to prepare for “Creed III.” Jordan plays Adonis Creed, while Thompson portrays his wife Bianca.<\/p>\n
“The dividing line between characters and ourselves sometimes becomes blurred because so much of what we explore personally we transfer to the characters in general,” Thompson once said. \/Telegraph\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American actor Michael B. Jordan revealed that he went to therapy after one of the most important roles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,60957,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-221160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-michael-b-jordan","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}