Michael B. Jordan
After production wrapped on 2018’s Black Panther, Jordan revealed that he’d sought professional help to recover from playing the film’s villain, Erik Killmonger.
“I went to therapy, I started talking to people, starting unpacking a little bit,” he told Oprah Winfrey, explaining that while he prepped for the role he’d “isolated” himself in order to “get all that nastiness” to play the Marvel character.
“I spent a lot of time alone,” Jordan said. “I figured Erik, his childhood growing up was pretty lonely. He didn’t have a lot of people he could talk to about this place called Wakanda that didn’t exist.”
But the star admitted he didn’t have “an escape plan” after production wrapped, saying, “When it was all over, I think just being in that kind of mind state … it caught up with me.”
Seeing a therapist, he continued, “just helped me out a lot. As a man you get a lot of slack for it…I don’t really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk.”
