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Eric Eisenberg

Michael B. Jordan Did One Wild Thing To Keep The Twins Different In Sinners, And Someone Give Him The Oscar

Twin Michael B Jordans stand together against in front of the old saw mill in Sinners.

There is an incredible level of talent featured in this year’s Best Actor category at the Academy Awards. Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Wagner Moura, and Michael B. Jordan each delivered some of the best performances of their careers in their respective nominated films, and it’s tricky to predict who will walk away from the award ceremony next month with a trophy. There are strong arguments to be made for each of them – in Jordan’s case specifically, we must discuss the wild level of thought and care that he put in differentiating his twin roles in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

Jordan has been doing a lot of press during awards season talking about his career – from discussing the moment he became passionate about acting to his perspective on the weirdest thing about the entertainment business – but fellow Oscar nominee Wunmi Mosaku has also been talking up his impressiveness of late, and she offered some amazing revelations during a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. Discussing his separate approaches for his performances as brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners, the actress explained that her co-star went as far as to hold his face differently depending on who he was playing. Said Mosaku,

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