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The idea of playing twins admittedly “made me nervous, at first,” the Creed star told Deadline in December. “Then, equal parts nervous and excited. Iโve also learned to trust [Coogler]. He doesnโt say things he doesnโt mean, so when he pitches an idea to me, I know he thought long and hard about it and took a lot into consideration. And when he says, ‘Hey, yo, I wrote this for you,’ how can you not respond as an artist?”
But whileย Sinnersย may have been the biggest artistic challenge of his career to date, Jordan has been rising to the occasion since he was a kid, the fate of young Wallace on The Wire still a gut punch more than 23 years later.
Jordan then appeared on 58 episodes of All My Children, starting in 2003, and had one-off parts on procedurals such as CSI and Cold Case before eventually landing the role of high school football star Vince Howard on the fourth season of Friday Night Lights in 2009.
