Michael B Jordan has revealed he turned to therapy after he finished filming Black Panther.
The 31-year-old star, who played Erik Killmonger in the smash film, was forced to isolate himself as part of getting into character, but admitted everything eventually caught up with him.
Speaking to Oprah Winfrey during SuperSoul Conversations he said: “I went to therapy, I started talking to people, started unpacking a little bit. I was by myself, isolating myself.
“I spent a lot of time alone. I figured Erik [Killmonger], his childhood growing up was lonely. He didn’t have a lot of people he could talk to about this place called Wakanda that didn’t exist.”
Opening up about readjusting to life after the film, Jordan told how he found it “tough.”
He said: “It was a little tough for me at first. Readjusting to people caring about me, getting that love that I shut out. I shut out love, I didn’t want love.
“I wanted to be in this lonely place as long as I could. Your mind is so powerful. Your mind will get your body past a threshold that it would have given up on way before. Honestly, therapy, just talking to somebody just helped me out a lot. As a man, you get a lot of slack for it, I don’t really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk.”
Jordan added that he felt pressure representing African Americans in the film.
He added: “Of course it’s an extreme, exaggerated version of the African diaspora from the African American perspective.
“So to be able to take that kind of pain and rage and all those emotions that Erik kind of represents from being black and brown here in America. That was something I didn’t take lightly.”
Black Panther is currently up for the Best Picture gong at this year’s Oscars.
If the flick wins the gong, it would be the first ever superhero film to bag the coveted award.
The 91st Academy Awards will take place on February 24 in Los Angeles.
