Michael B. Jordan officially has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — and his friends and collaborators were there to celebrate by his side. Jordan received his star on March 1, and at the ceremony, Jordan’s “Creed III” costar Jonathan Majors, as well as Ryan Coogler, who directed the original “Creed,” spoke in honor of the achievement.
In his speech, Coogler recalled meeting up with Jordan for the first time before casting him in 2013’s “Fruitvale Station.” “We met at a Starbucks not too far from Universal Studios . . . We sat down right there in the lobby, and we talked about our families, about our hopes, our dreams, why he got into the business,” he said. “I remember thinking, ‘Man, I hope this dude wants to do this movie, because it feels like he’s going places, man.’ I realized that he hadn’t been a lead on a television show or in a movie yet, and I said, ‘Man, we got to change that.’ But I had no idea how much we would have a chance to change that.”
Coogler also directed Jordan in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and in his speech, he said he felt that Jordan’s “Black Panther” costar Chadwick Boseman — who died from colon cancer in 2020 at the age of 43 — was “smiling on us right now.” He ended with a tribute to how far Jordan has come. “It’s been a ride of a lifetime . . . watching him blossom,” Coogler said. “From Newark, NJ, bro, to walking in front of driving cars to having your name on this street, bro, godd*mn!’
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