Jordan won best villain at the MTV Movie & TV Awards for playing Erik Killmonger in 'Black Panther.' The hit Marvel movie was a big winner at the awards show.
Michael B. Jordan scooped up a golden popcorn award for best villain at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Monday. He received the honor for playing Erik Killmonger in the hit Marvel film “Black Panther.”
But Jordan, 31, who grew up in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, started his acceptance speech with a crack about another celebrity.
“I’m shocked that I won this award for best villain,” he said. “I thought for sure Roseanne had that in the bag, you know?”
Jordan, who once played basketball at Arts High and recently starred in HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was of course referring to Roseanne Barr.
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In May, Barr, 65, caused ABC to drop its successful “Roseanne” revival series after she tweeted a racist comment about Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. (In trying to explain her actions, Barr said she had been on Ambien when she posted the message, but Sanofi, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company that makes the drug, tweeted that “racism is not a known side effect” of the medication.)
Director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther,” which won best movie at the Los Angeles awards show, received the most nominations of the night. Jordan’s co-star, Chadwick Boseman, who played the Black Panther, T’Challa, won for best performance in a movie. He also won for best hero, and handed that award over to James Shaw Jr., the man who disarmed a gunman who opened fire at a Tennessee Waffle House in April.
In the opening of the MTV awards show, Newark’s own Queen Latifah guest-starred alongside the show’s host, Tiffany Haddish, and Jada Pinkett Smith, her “Girls Trip” co-stars, in a “Black Panther” parody. (Haddish won for best comedic performance.)
Jordan, a favorite flirting target of Haddish, will star in the upcoming “Rocky” movie “Creed II,” the sequel to the 2015 Coogler film “Creed.” In March, Jordan pledged that he would adopt inclusion riders for all projects that come out of his production company, Outlier Society. An inclusion rider is a stipulation in an actor’s or producer’s contract that a cast and crew be diverse.
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