Michael B. was Jordan reflects on one of the most poignant memories of his life.
In a new interview with Delivery timeThe actor talked about his work experience Sinners And how deeply the story affected him while “immersing himself in the story of the Jim Crow South in 1932 Mississippi.”
He admitted that the script sparked something unexpectedly intimate. “What struck me when I read the script – and I think I knew it – was that the 1930s were not kind to people who looked like us,” he said.
Jordan went on to explain how the project prompted him to reconsider his family history and see it through a new lens.
“And for me, I have family roots that go back to Hope, Arkansas and Shreveport, Louisiana on my father’s side of the family… You see them getting older, and your grandmother’s been older your whole life, but now you understand how they grew up.”
He continued: “Going in there to make this film, I think the thing that clicked was like, ‘She was 20 at one point. And it was like we made a film about my grandparents, my great-grandparents, my cousins, and what it was like for them – the conditions of living to survive on a daily basis.’
Furthermore, Jordan thought about the woman who helped raise him when his parents were at work.
“The woman who took care of me… who made me read the Bible or sit and meditate, or go out there and get this key, you know what I’m saying? She made me rethink the relationship I had with her when she was living.”