Los Angeles, April 9 || Hollywood star Michael B. Jordan has heaped praise on filmmaker Ryan Coogler and said that the director played an instrumental role in his success.
The 38-year-old actor has frequently worked with Coogler over the last decade such as 'Creed', 'Black Panther' and 'Sinners'.
Jordan told 'Extra': "It’s extremely important to me … I feel like, at a time, earlier in my career when I was figuring out what type of actor I wanted to be, lead actor, you know, like where do I stand in the entertainment industry?”
“Only been a part of ensembles and in this nature, never opened a movie before, never been a lead of a film before, so I was searching for that and Ryan was the first director to believe in that, and tell me I was a movie star and believed it and made me believe it, you know?"
The actor features alongside actress Hailee Steinfeld in 'Sinners', a new horror movie set in the 1930s in Southern United States, and Jordan previously claimed that his co-star's performance shows her "in a new light,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Jordan feels the project could actually prove to be a landmark in Steinfeld’s career.
He told WhoWhatWear: "Hailee's performance in 'Sinners' is very, very versatile and honestly fun. I think it's gonna make people lean in and get a chance to see her in a way they haven't had an opportunity to see her in before.