Actors Who Were Traumatized By Their Most Intense Roles

Michael B. Jordan

Black Panther was a global sensation, earning well over a billion dollars. Michael B. Jordan played one of Marvel's most memorable and diabolical villains, Erik Killmonger, a war-hungry usurper. Although many fans sympathized with the heartbroken Killmonger, the role took quite a toll on Jordan. Jordan wasn't used to playing an antagonist.

"I was never in a character for that long of a period of time and was, I guess, that dark, that lonely, that painful," Jordan said on The Bill Simmons Podcast.

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