Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Creed’ co-star Michael B. Jordan: I’m not a boxer

In the 2015 sports drama film “Creed“, Michael B. Jordan, 28, played Adonis Creed, a boxer, with Sylvester Stallone, 69, as Rocky Balboa, a boxing trainer. In a recent interview, the younger actor talked about his boxing skills.

“I’m gonna be clear and set the record straight,” Jordan told Entertainment Weekly Radio on SiriusXM. “I’m an actor. I am not a boxer, not at all. It was very humbling to get in the ring with a real boxer.”

Jordan took on his “Creed” role as an actor despite his lack of boxing experience. He said the way they approached staging the scenes in the film was that “every punch was a line.”

This enabled Jordan to actually act instead of simply executing fight choreography in the film directed by Ryan Coogler. The actor explained that every fight in the film was its own scene so they tried to look at it like that, which means he was not only throwing punches as Adonis Creed for no reason.

In another interview with MTV News, Jordan noted that the tracking shot in “Creed” was actually filmed all in one take only. He said when Coogler was first talking about it, they were trying to figure out ways to film the boxing scenes differently from any other fight movie.

For Jordan, it was a really ambitious shot and they only had eight takes to get it but they managed to get it around four or five. The actor feels very proud of it because they worked very hard on learning all the fight choreography with the cinematographer and its nuance was “pretty cool.”

Coogler co-wrote “Creed” with Aaron Covington. Among Jordan and Stallone’s co-stars Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Andre Ward, Tony Bellew, Ritchie Coster, Graham McTavish and Malik Bazille.