Long before earning a 2026 Critics Choice Awards nomination for his role in Sinners, Michael B. Jordan grappled with the emotional toll of playing one of his most intense film roles.
Jordan, 38, delivered a powerful performance as Erik Killmonger in Black Panther, and recently opened up about the psychological impact the role had on him, and how dealing with playing such a complicated villain led him to seek professional help after filming wrapped.
In a conversation with CBS Sunday Morning, Jordan admitted that it was difficult to shake the character after spending so much time portraying him.
"Each character kind of lives with you," the actor explained. "It's a blurred line between yourself and the character for me, anyway. And with Killmonger, it was a complex, layered antagonist."
To Jordan, Killmonger wasn't a villain at all, but a character who cared deeply about his people and would do anything to protect them.
"Erik didn't really know a lot of love, he didn't experience that. He had a lot of betrayal, a lot of failed systems around him that shaped him, and his anger, and his frustration and looking at history and how it would seem to always repeat itself and how he was gonna break that cycle."
For Jordan to deliver such a remarkable performance, it took a lot of preparation, both mentally and socially.
"For a while in preparation for that role I didn't really speak to my family that much. I was kind of isolated a bit. I went into my hole and tried to live like he would have lived for a bit. And afterwards, after the movie, it stuck with me a bit."
Jordan explains that he went to therapy to talk about his experience, and, "found a way to just decompress." He added, "I think at that point, I was still learning that I needed to decompress from a character."
Black Panther stars Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman at a press junket in 2018. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)"Acting is a solo journey a lot of times," he said, "Auditioning by yourself, practicing by yourself. There's a lot of preparation and the experience and the journey. So learning as I went, I [realized] that, 'Oh man, I still got a little something on me I need to get off.' You know, talking is really important.”
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