Exclusive Portraits: Michael B. Jordan & Jonathan Majors, Lead Actors in ‘Creed III’

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CHICAGO – Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors are two of the hottest featured players in film right now and teamed up over the weekend in “Creed III,” the continuation of the Adonis Creed (Jordan) story, son of Apollo Creed from the Rocky Balboa Universe. Majors portrays Damian, the latest challenger to Creed’s reign.

Damian Anderson was a fellow juvenile detention brother to Adonis, before the troubled son of Apollo was taken off the streets by Mama Creed (Phylicia Rashad). Damian served 18 years for a gun situation that involved Adonis, and “Dame” was the Golden Gloves champion who never got his shot. When he emerges from prison, he expects Adonis to give him that shot, and eventually they face off where they should have been years before … in the boxing ring. Tessa Thompson also reprises her role as Bianca Taylor, the singing star wife of Adonis.

Michael B. Jordan in Chicago, circa 2013
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Michael B. Jordan has become one of the most sought after and high profile movie actors of the last ten years. Besides the Creed series, he distinguished himself in films including “Fruitvale Station,” “Red Tails” and of course as villain Killshot in “Black Panther” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “Creed III” is his debut as director..

Jonathan Majors is experiencing a meteoric rise of his own. He got rave notices in 2019 for “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and then followed that up with “Da Five Bloods,” “The Harder They Fall” and as the lead character in 2022’s “Devotion.” He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kang the Conqueror, introduced in “Loki” and crystalized in the recent “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”

Photographer Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com took these Exclusive Portraits of Michael B. Jordan in 2013 and Jonathan Majors in 2022.

Jonathan Majors, circa 2022
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

CLICK HERE for a Podtalk interview with Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors of “Creed III” by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com.

By PATRICK McDONALD Editor and Film Critic/Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com