7/11/2023 0 Comments Michael b jordan the wireI’ll be damned if it makes a lick of sense though. His small screen credits include The Wire, Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, as well as the HBO movie Fahrenheit 451. Like, I know that at some point I was at the pub. Even when you track it step by step, cataloguing and ordering, it still doesn’t really make sense. Like a ridiculously drunken journey home that you cannot remember but somehow manage to piece together through external pieces of evidence, it still doesn’t feel quite right. The 26 year-old, who broke out as the corner kid Wallace on The Wire, earned mainstream fans on Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, and hit the multiplex in the superhero sleeper-hit Chronicle. So, really, all the evidence is right there. I guess his transition from poor little Wallace to Killmonger soooorta makes sense…ĪND NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, THERE’S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS too! In which he was also already in pretty great shape. Ryan Coogler, the writer-director behind Creed and Black Panther had already given Jordan a chance to truly flex his impressive acting chops (if not pecs-it wasn’t really that kind of movie) in 2013’s harrowing Fruitvale Station.Ī year before that, in now-somewhat-disgraced director Josh Trank’s found footage superhero flick, Chronicle, Jordan was clearly already quite buffed up, and emanating a powerful charisma in what was otherwise a relatively small and thankless role. Because not only did Jordan completely transform himself physically for the role he brought a level of skill that might’ve also appeared to appear as if from thin air.īut, of course, that’s also not true. It seems like it came from nowhere, without warning, and it’s almost freaky.Īnd it starts to make some sort of sense. The now 31-year old California native took himself from this sweet, slight, almost-bit player: Then, well, I would’ve definitely been looking for the hidden camera, cos I know when I’m being pranked, I wasn’t born yesterday for god’s sake. If you had additionally said that little Wallace would somehow transform from this: No disrespect meant to the actor, who was quite brilliant as Wallace in the early stretches of the show, but it was not a part that seemed to be gearing him up for a shot at the big time. Jordan whose star would be shooting to the heavens in such a way as it is now… Well, I’m not sure I’d be buying it. Some had the arcs of success you would expect- **cough**Idris Elba **cough** For other it worked out differently.īut if you had told me at the time that of all those people in that show it would be Michael B. Watching it now it’s fascinating to see where all these people have ended up in their respective careers, and specifically how that compares to what we would’ve expected when we first saw the show all those years ago. Williams to Dominic West to Amy Ryan to Idris Elba to Sonja Sohn to Lance Reddick to Aidan Gillen to Pablo Schreiber, it was truly just an embarrassment of riches. The writing, the direction, the performances-all at the very top of the game.Īcting-wise it was a remarkably rich buffet of talent. You know the story: Once upon a time, we all watched The Wire-AKA.
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