Leading up to the release of Black Panther, we had heard quite a bit about the amount of work that Michael B. Jordan put into his performance as Erik Killmonger.
Of course, based on the sheer amount of hooting and hollering that he heard when he snuck into opening night screenings, he can probably rest easy now knowing that fans have responded quite well to his work.
Between putting on an insane amount of muscle for the role as well as drawing inspiration from Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto from the X-Men films, it sounds like Jordan arguably understood the pressure of stepping to his first real villainous role.