Carl Weathers poses with cast members Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan during the premiere of the film ''Creed'' in Los Angeles, California November 19, 2015. (Photo : Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)
After playing Johnny Storm in "Fantastic Four," Michael B. Jordan starred in "Creed" playing the role of a boxer named Adonis Creed opposite Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa. In a recent interview, Jordan pointed out that he is no Manny Pacquiao.
"I'm gonna be clear and set the record straight," Jordan told Entertainment Weekly Radio on SiriusXM. "I'm an actor. I am not a boxer, not at all. It was very humbling to get in the ring with a real boxer."
Apparently, Jordan took on his "Creed" role as an actor despite his lack of boxing experience. He said the way they approached staging the scenes in "Creed" was that "every punch was a line." Doing so enabled him to actually act instead of simply executing fight choreography.
The "Fantastic Four" star explained that every fight in "Creed" was its own scene so they tried to look at it like that. This means he was not only throwing punches as Adonis Creed for no reason.
In another interview with MTV News, Jordan noted that the tracking shot in "Creed" was actually filmed all in one take only. He said when "Creed" director and writer Ryan Coogler was first talking about it, they were trying to figure out ways to film the boxing scenes differently from any other fight movie.
For Jordan, it was a really ambitious shot and they only had eight takes to get it but they managed to get it around four or five. The actor feels very proud of it because they worked very hard on learning all the fight choreography with the cinematographer and its nuance was "pretty cool."
With Jordan and Stallone, "Creed" also stars Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Andre Ward, Tony Bellew, Ritchie Coster, Graham McTavish and Malik Bazille, among others. The sports drama film was released on Nov. 25, Wednesday.
