Yahoo News Black Panther star snuck into opening night screenings
It's one thing to read all the reviews or watch your film climb up the box office charts, but if you really want to find out what the people think of your movie, there's only one way to do it... get in among them.
That's just what Michael B Jordan did on the opening night of Black Panther, when he wanted to find out what real audiences made of his turn as Erik 'Killmonger' Stevens.
And fortunately for Michael, it sounds like it was a great experience for the fans and for him, too. (It may have been different if they'd accidentally been playing Fifty Shades Freed, which happened to some cinemagoers in Atlanta, Georgia).
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"Honestly, everybody was laughing, they were yelling at the screen, you know what I'm saying?" he told Entertainment Tonight.
"The gasps, the one-liners, everything was working so it was cool to see it with a normal audience -- not at a premiere, not at a press junket.
"They were really engaged and interacting with the film, so it was good to see."
He added of the repsonse to his villainous role: "It is a little relaxing to know people are really liking the performance.
"It was something I'd never really done before so I was anxious to see how it would play and if it worked... it felt good."
One thing fans may have been impressed by is just how ripped Michael got for the role, and he recently told Digital Spy just how he managed it.
"Erik is like a Swiss Army Knife," he said. "He has a lot of different skill sets. He has a very eclectic skill set from weapons training, and firearms, swords, spears, to hand-to-hand combat, martial arts.
"So, I did a little bit of everything. I had some time to study and really become Erik in this project. It was a lot!"
And that's on top of "regular working out, eating a lot, drinking a lot of water, lifting weights". Easy.
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