The 36-year-old was honored on Wednesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which was placed in front of Funko Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard.
Ryan Coogler and Jonathan Majors, who frequently work together and most recently worked with Jordan on Creed III, honored him with heartfelt remarks in which they lavished him with love and looked back on his career trajectory.
When the celebrity was interviewed by ET's Nischelle Turner during his ceremony, he acknowledged that the occasion had overwhelmed him.
“My emotions are actually all over the place, I’m seeing so many people that I want to kind of get to and hug and connect with and show my appreciation,” Jordan said, beaming. “I want to give the love right back, you know? But then I’m also just taking a moment to just to be like, ‘Damn. OK, wow, that happened. I’m here!’”
“I didn’t think it would hit me this much, but as it all started to come together and we start to see it and reality starts to set in, the importance [and] the weight of the moment… you really realize it,” he added, saying that he couldn’t imagine anything that would top the moment. Although he noted that only his upcoming box office opening “comes somewhere in the ballpark.”
Jordan reflected on his professional journey and said that if he could give advice to his younger self, he would tell him to "remain hopeful, stay faithful, stay true to yourself [and] always retain a full, compassionate heart.
Days before the premiere of Creed III, in which he served as both director and star for the eagerly awaited third installment of the Rocky offshoot franchise, the star was honored with his star. Critics asserted that he excelled in both areas.
Four years have passed since the events of Creed II when the movie takes up, and Adonis (Jordan) and his wife Bianca (Tessa Thompson) are happily raising their daughter Amara (Mila Davis-Kent), who was born in the first installment, in Los Angeles.
In the midst of this euphoria, Adonis is shocked by the appearance of an old buddy and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Majors).
“It feels good, it feels like people are getting the work, you know? They understand what we’re trying to say, what we are doing and it feels good to be understood a little bit,” the star said. “Especially when it doesn’t always happen this way, not even in the third instalment. I just didn’t have expectations of the love for what it was, but we use that as fuel and we just try to be truthful and tell the best story we could.”
“[The directing] interest sparks back [to] Fruitville Station when I first kind of saw a guy, up close and personal, that looked like me, directing, commanding the set,” Jordan shares, adding that although Coogler — who directed the first Creed and remained as executive producer for both sequels — was filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever while he was filming Creed III, the veteran director readily made himself available for any “911 phone calls.”
Jordan claims that despite this, Coogler wanted to give him the freedom to "let me do my thing" and leave his mark on the franchise that has grown so dear to him.
It's hardly surprising that Jordan is prepared to take on the upcoming task after having such a good experience under his belt. Despite the stress of acting in and directing a movie, the actor claims he would do it again without a doubt.
“I was so comfortable with the story, the character [and] world… I had my handle on the character, you know, that was the only guy that I played three times before, and over the course of, like, eight or nine years,” he explains. “That was a big chunk of my career and the changes and the growth that I was going through. So, to be able to deliver those lines and maybe work out some of my s**t and his s**t at the same time, that’s what actors go for.”
