The 31-year-old actor who played Erik Killmonger in the Marvel Studios' Blockbuster displayed his sexy and muscular physique for the magazine cover.
In the interview with Men's Health, the actor opened up about how he lives up to his name and also explaining his role of Guy Montag in 'Fahrenheit 451'.
"I'm competitive; I want to compete in anything I do; that came from my name. Growing up in sports and having a name like Michael Jordan and being teased, I had to compete. I couldn't be the guy with the name and not be good at it; that carried over to everything. I'm like, I've got to be just as great if not greater than he was in his field."
"I never met Michael Jordan. I never want to officially meet him until I'm at a point where he knows who I am and I know who he is and it would be our mutual respect thing. Until then, it would just be a 'This guy has your name, haha.' I don't want that, so that pushes me to keep working, too. These things motivate me."
"Life is short, you know? I want to leave something behind; a blueprint; a work ethic. Something that my great-grand kids and their kids and their kids can see: this is where it started, lineage, inter-generational wealth, things that are here forever, all that."
"I was cautious. I wasn't exactly sure if I wanted to play an authority figure due to the relationship between my community and the police. I wasn't sure if I wanted to play that character, but once I got into the book, heard what [director] Ramin [Bahrani] envisioned, and understood what he wanted to say, then it was like, 'I got it. I want to be a part of it.'"
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