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Michael B Jordan has spoken out in an exclusive clip about how he played two identical twins in his newest movie.
Whether it be The Parent Trap, Legend, or The Monkey, having identical twins both played the same actor is a trick as old as time when it comes to film – and Jordan is the latest and perhaps greatest actor to take on the task.
Speaking in a clip shared exclusively with LADbible, the actor shared how he differentiated between his two roles as the characters Smoke and Stack.
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He starred in a new horrifying vampire movie with a whopping 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Called Sinners, the film is directed by Ryan Coogler, who Jordan has worked with before on Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
Check out the exclusive Sinners clip explaining how he played both twins below:
Speaking in the clip, Coogler said: “It was a role that I thought only Michael [B Jordan] could do.
"It was an opportunity for us to jump off this creative cliff together and take some real risks.”
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Speaking about how he differentiated playing each of the two characters the actor said: “Smoke has this real heaviness to him, he’s a man of few words.
"Stack is a lot lighter, he smiles through his pain, he’s always on the move.”
Coogler went on to call it a ‘great experiment’ to see if Jordan could play both roles ‘40/50 times a day’.
Co-star Wunmi Mosaku went as far as to say his work was so ‘specific’ that she could tell which of the twins he was walking onto set as ‘with her back turned’.
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The film also stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Omar Benson Miller, and Li Jun Li and released last weekend in the US, however, is releasing tonight, April 18, in the UK.
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair said in their review of the film that Sinners was: “Propulsive and stirring entertainment, messy but always compelling.
“The film’s fascinating array of genres and tropes and ideas swirls together in a way that is, I suppose, singularly American.”
Manohla Dargis of the New York Times said in their review: “Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies.”
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Aisha Harris of NPR said: “Jordan is at his very best here, yet more proof that Coogler might be the only director the actor's worked with thus far who truly understands what makes him a star.”
Sinners is available to watch in the UK on April 18.