Michael B. Jordan on George Lucas and Telekinesis

I think it's proven, right? The ability, I just know. You look like you're reading my mind right now. I mean, that's my gift right now. I can read women's minds.

I'm blushing again. What's up guys? Nikki Novac here in the Young Hollywood studio with Michael B. Jordan.

Oh, it's a pleasant surprise already. Props and I like your T-shirt.

I appreciate that. Very appropriate.

A little bit, I guess you know the whole Red Tails. The whole Red Tails chronicles.

The whole Red Tails chronicles. All right. The whole Red Tails chronicles. Okay, so are you in? You must be into like the whole flying thing now that.

The flying was uh that was amazing. You know, we we really wanted to you know, capture flying like like you've never seen before. So, we based it basically off of skydiving and that's kind of like the look that it has, that kind of real free falling you know, with the clouds and stuff like that.

Right. I heard like the shooting technique was the camera is like it's like you actually are doing.

Yeah, we were in this thing called, well, I call it the hamster wheel of death but it looks like a hamster wheel and you're like locked in the middle of it. It's just not comfortable at all.

That's how you shot it?

That's how we shot some of the flying scenes. So.

Okay, so what is the hamster wheel of death?

It's this hamster wheel and you're like, yeah, you're the hamster and you're just like locked in at the hips into this like metal like corset almost and you're just, you have free range of motion. You can do whatever you want but men specifically aren't really are anatomy doesn't agree with flying harnesses. and stuff.

Oh, the harnesses.

Yeah, yes, yes, yes. It's a little uncomfortable, so.

Probably a little more than for certain people.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, so. Just saying. You know, you know, a proud guy, you know.

I think you can get a round of applause for that one for sure. So, this movie when I saw the trailer, I was like, I got to see this movie. Because the trailer it just, you don't really it doesn't really give the movie justice. You don't really know exactly what the film is about which is kind of what we were. I was moving face with your mind. And it's all, well, it's all about telekinesis. Do you think it's possible? Because there's sort of like conflicting.

I think telekinesis is definitely plausible. I think if you know, certain people, I don't know, maybe born with a gift. If you just have that, you know, the extra you know, gene or something's a little off in certain areas you might have that telekinetic ability. Right. Maybe. Of course. It's proven, right? The ability such in such fashion. I just know. You look like you're reading my mind right now. I mean, that's my gift right now. I can read women's minds.

I'm blushing again. And so Red Tails. You're also in.

I'm also in Red Tails. play a fighter pilot.

Mm-hm.

One of the Tuskegee Airmen. Which was uh, it was more of a honor than anything, just to represent a part of my culture, a part of my history. Um, I felt enlightened and I'm being able to like, you know, to to shed some light on a part of history that not too many people really know about, so.

And I heard George Lucas had a really hard time getting the film made.

Last 25 years. You know, this is his baby project. He's been trying to do it for a while, so he finally got the right cast, the right crew, the right writer. Just, you know, everything kind of fell into place and uh, it just worked out.

So how is George?

George is awesome. You know, he's a Um.

Were you like on the level with George? Like, is he sort of like?

Uncle Luke. You know, you know. It's Luke, baby.

Were you a Star Wars fan?

Oh, definitely. So I definitely. Oh, George, can we see the archives before we get to work and so I definitely saw you like R2D2 and like you know Chewy and all the Stormtroopers.

Who's your favorite Star Wars character?

Um, I mean, Han Solo's the man, you know.

Really? You're a Han's kind of guy.

He's the man. He's like the witty kind of, you know, comic relief in certain areas but he's always there right on time. Oh no. Han's the man.

So, we have a little game for you. It's a superpower game.

I like games.

Just sort of like more of a questionnaire. Okay. And the uh, the first one is if you could have any superpower, what would it be?

The ability to read a woman's mind.

Oh, you just totally annihilated the second question. Why was it the second? I thought you could already read minds.

I'm just saying if I could really really do it, I'm a good guesser.

All right, what am I thinking? Guess. What am I thinking?

Um, of course, I will. Oh, he's cute.

So, the second one was, would you rather have the ability to read a woman's mind or the ability to predict the future?

I think I'd much rather be able to read a woman's mind with a filter. I got to have a filter. That's that's that's the clause. We just don't speak the same language. That's the problem. I can say whatever I want to say and then I can ask you, well, what exactly did you hear? And it'd be something completely different.

Okay, so I'm thinking, I'll tell you what I hear. Um, would you rather have a guy uh open your door for the first time or every time that he sees you? Like the first time like the first time you guys go out. Would you rather him open the door for the first?

So, here's what I just heard. Uh-huh. You want to know if you can get away with only doing it the first time. That's that's actually damn good. That's exactly that's exactly what I said. I am impressed actually right now. I'm impressed.

And the true, the real answer to that is every single time. Every single time. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. If you could go back in time, would you like to have invented and founded Apple, YouTube, or Facebook?

Oh, man. Oh, I think Apple. Maybe Apple. Because look at your phone.

Oh, oh, you want me to put me on blast like that. put me on blast. I heard it down face down on purpose. I had fun last night. We're calling out Apple, right?

I know. I think Apple.

And last, but not least, if you were to create a superhero costume, what would it look like? Oh, man. Um, What color would it be? What color would it be?

If I had a superhero costume, it would be like black and gray.

And what ability would you have? What ability?

Maybe like super speed. Like being able to like, I don't know, to go as fast as I want like Flash. I've always been fascinated with Flash. Cuz he can get away. He can move fast enough where he can actually fly, walk on water, you know, he can.

Travel time.

Travel time. Mm-hm. Time travel is actually a good one. That's that's a really cool power. It's a good one. But, Oh, guess what?

What's up? Oh, oh, I was almost I thought you were gonna catch. I get some swag. You get some swag because you answered. Which one? All the questions correctly or what? Was it correct answer? Well, I don't think there is any right or wrong answer. Did I hear your favorite actor is Meryl Streep?

Um, one of my favorites.

See, most usually guys mention guys. I love that you mentioned a woman. It's cool. She's awesome.

Thank you. Appreciate it. I'm take that home.

Can you turn the camera off with your mind? Uh,