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This holiday season, Michael B. Jordan is gifting us a dose of romance.
Denzel
Washington is the best actors of his generation, but he’s
directed a handful of acclaimed films, too, including Antwone Fisher and
Fences, which was nominated for 4 Oscars. His next feature, A
Journal For Jordan, has him working with Michael B. Jordan, who calls
Washington his “idol.”
It would be a passing of the torch moment, except Washington is still
killing it (he plays Lord Macbeth in Joel Coen’s much-anticipated The
Tragedy of Macbeth alongside Frances McDormand).
As for A Journal For Jordan, the romantic-drama is based on the
bestselling memoir of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Canedy
about her late partner, Sgt. Charles Monroe King. Jordan, fresh off his
cameo in [redacted],
plays a soldier who keeps a journal for his infant son. “I’ve done a
lot of physical roles, because that’s been my appetite. I’m 34; the last
seven years has been (about) physically developing into your sweet
spot,” the Creed actor told USA Today
about the film. But “I felt safe to be able to go into this, to explore
these characters, and to be vulnerable in that type of way.”
Jordan
admitted that he doesn’t “watch a lot of romantic movies,” but when he
read the script for A Journal for Jordan, “it was just the right time to
do it.”
via: Uproxx
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