Michael B. Jordan
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I think about that B as being like an action verb.
you know, like, like that is like Michael B. Jordan, right?
Like it's just something, it's a sentence to me.
Right.
And I just, he's such a fun, even, you know, like I would not have voted for him for best actor.
I just wouldn't have.
Cause I'm really not, I'm so much less about my feelings when it comes to these things.
I would have gone Wagner Mora, Timothee Chalamet, although I would have probably gone back and forth between Chalamet and Wagner Mora in The Secret Agent.
But those would have been my top two options.
And I, you know, I know that DiCaprio, you know, I woke up like this.
I feel like he kind of can do these things in his sleep, you know, but he did a version of the same thing in Killers of the Flower Moon and it was terrible, right?
He was not good in that movie.
And he's got such control over the material here in one battle after.
I also think he's better directed in one battle after another, which is a wild thing to say about Martin Scorsese directing DiCaprio because, you know, that relationship.
But I just think that the comedy...
of this movie is what he could lean into.
And there's so... The comedy in One Battle After Another is so elastic that it just gives all the things that DiCaprio is good at someplace to go.
Like, I think that that stretch from when he gets to...
Sergio San Carlos' Benicio Del Toro's karate studio to the moment that he gets caught with the taser falling off the roof.
And the way he performs that being tased