Michael B Jordan reflects on rare childhood memory

Michael B. Jordan has been reflecting on one of the most touching memories of his life.

In a new interview with Deadline, the actor opened up about his experience working on Sinners and how deeply the story affected him while “being immersed into this story of the Jim Crow South in 1932 Mississippi.”

He admitted that the script stirred something unexpectedly intimate, and stated, “What hits me when I read the script — and I guess I knew it — was that the ’30s wasn’t kind to people that looked like us,” he said.

Jordan went on to explain how the project prompted him to revisit his own family history and see it through a new lens.

“And for me, having family roots that are from Hope, Arkansas and Shreveport, Louisiana on my dad’s side of the family… You see them as old, your grandmother’s been old your entire life, but now you understand how they grew up.”

He continued, “Going down there to make this movie, I guess the thing that clicked was like, she was 20 once. And it was like we made a movie about my grandparents, and my great-grandparents, and my cousins, and what it was like for them — the circumstances of living in survival on a day-to-day basis.”

Moreover, Jordan reflected on the woman who helped raise him when his parents were at work. 

“The woman that used to take care of me… who made me read scripture or sit down and meditate, or go out there and get that switch, you know what I’m saying? It made me rethink the relationship I had with her while she was living.”