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Michael B. Jordan Reveals His Master Plan

Jordan once told GQ he intended to spend his 20s doing pedal-to-the-floor work, then take a break. But at 38, he’s still seeking out new challenges—from starring (as twins) in Ryan Coogler’s new film to directing himself in a Thomas Crown reboot. What keeps the Sinners star moving so fast?

By Frazier TharpePhotography by Jack Bridgland

Michael B. Jordan had grand plans for the setting of this interview, at least at first. Fishing. Go-karting, maybe. (His team even suggested archery, an idea he seems hilariously bemused by when I reference it later.) But those were the inclinations of a Mike who thought he’d have more free time. The Mike before me this weekend is in go mode, so much so that on each of the three days we cross paths, he’s in the same economical uniform: black hoodie, black sweats or jeans. He’s in the busy beginning stages of making a movie—his second directorial effort; more on that later—and go-karts will have to wait. Today he’s opted instead for a late brunch at Granville, a restaurant not far from his home.

Is he a regular then, I ask? Not quite. “This is my first time physically being in here,” Jordan says, complimenting the vibe as he takes in the surroundings. “I order from here all the time.”

This is, as I’ve come to understand, very typical MBJ. Why go somewhere when you can just order in? Why pop out and break a veneer of privacy that gets harder to maintain with each number one box office blockbuster he notches?

It’s an unseasonably warm December afternoon in Studio City. Jordan has been this busy all year—as an actor, and as a burgeoning producer-director, but also with the non-film-related projects to which he’s applying more and more of his seemingly limitless attention and focus these days. “I think part of the goal,” he explains, “is to get to a place where my life or anything around it doesn’t change if I all of a sudden decide I may not want to work this year, or the year after that. I might want to spend time doing other things.”

From the outside, though, 2024 looked like a relatively quiet year for Jordan. No noteworthy public appearances. No films released. No sightings spurring dating rumors. He’s been so off the grid that when he finally posted a photo dump on Instagram earlier in the month, it immediately garnered comments like “We definitely miss seeing your face!” and “Guys wakeup our husband posted.”

When I bring up his sparse social media presence at brunch, he laughs and says, “That’s kind of by design. It works for my personality because I don’t like sharing a lot anyway. So, I found that me just being myself in that type of way adds to the mystique—wanting to find out what [I’m] up to. Which I also know feeds the frenzy of other things too.”

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