Exclusively: Michael B. Jordan and Chanté Adams talk Denzel Washington's A Journal For Jordan
Playing exclusively movie theaters from Sony Pictures is Denzel Washington’s directorial A Journal for Jordan, starring Michael B. Jordan and Chanté Adams. Written by Academy Award nominee Virgil Williams, the film is based on Dana Canedy’s New York Times best-selling memoir of the same title, which was published in 2008.
The film tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son Jordan while deployed overseas. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 when Jordan was just seven months old, but his spirit lives on in his messages of love to Dana and Jordan.
For Adams, it’s her leading role since starring rapper Roxanne Shanté in the biopic Roxanne Roxanne, for which she received the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance. She has since appeared in Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men, Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, and Stella Meghie’s The Photogragh. She’s set to make her Broadway debut in Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew.
Jordan, who’s been acting for over years, was last seen in Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse and played himself in Space Jam: A New Legacy. He also reprised his role as Kilmonger by voicing the character in the animated Disney+ series What If?. He’s set to make his directorial debut and reprise his role as Adonis Creed in Creed III opposite Jonathan Majors.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales caught up with Jordan and Adams as they spoke about playing real-life characters in a film directed by Mr. Washington.
