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Editorial Producer Danielle Young speaks with the cast and other guests on the Creed II carpet about Michael B. Jordan's body transformation and what they've had to sacrifice to get what they wanted.
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00:00I wanted to show you this image, and I want to see how you feel.
00:03Okay.
00:04Progression.
00:05Isn't that good?
00:06Yeah, yeah, growth.
00:07Growth.
00:08Oh, yeah, it's more size in these, what are those called?
00:13Deltoids?
00:14Deltoids?
00:15Pec?
00:16The deltoids are popping out a bit more there.
00:18Yeah.
00:19It makes me feel like I wish I was younger.
00:21You look good, though.
00:22I feel like you're fine.
00:23I mean, I'm solidly, what, about 14 years the senior might be?
00:27Oh, wow.
00:28Black, don't crack y'all.
00:29I'm doing alright.
00:30I need to hit the gym, you know?
00:31Have you hit the gym since being a part of this?
00:33I have been in gyms.
00:35I have not hit them.
00:37Wow.
00:38I feel okay.
00:41He looks cool.
00:43Looks nice.
00:44So many abs.
00:45Yeah, man.
00:46I'm like, yo, he's doing his thing.
00:48Yeah.
00:49Well, that's part one, and that's part two.
00:50Exactly.
00:51See what we did with the abs in part two, though?
00:53See what we did?
00:54I remember that.
00:55Yeah, that was one.
00:56And I told them when I got to this one, I was going to make them forget who that guy
00:59was.
01:00And that's what I did.
01:01Listen, it does offend me.
01:02Because the way Mike looks in this film, man, it makes me want to go to, I got to go to
01:06the gym as soon as we're done with this interview.
01:08Listen.
01:09Tessa looks like an action figure.
01:10Look at it.
01:11Like a plastic action figure.
01:13He just, it doesn't even look real.
01:16His body doesn't look real.
01:18Like, look, you don't even see nipples.
01:19Like, he looked like a plastic character.
01:21Well, obviously, you have to sacrifice to have a body like that.
01:24Yeah.
01:25And to be a fighter and to be an athlete in that regard.
01:27What have you sacrificed, Tessa, to be where you are?
01:30Oh, probably being with my loved ones because I'm, you know, I'm away so often.
01:35You work.
01:36I work, yeah.
01:37Which I'm so grateful for.
01:38But just, you know, missing, it's trying to carve out time to really make sure that you're
01:42there, you can show up for your friends and your family.
01:44Things that I want to do, the things that I kind of have to do in order to kind of push
01:49this machine forward and build the ecosystem around me.
01:54Along with the production company and the movies and the people that rock with me.
01:59So, yeah, you sacrifice a lot of yourself.
02:01Well, I sacrifice every day.
02:03You know what I mean?
02:04My body looks like that right now.
02:05Yeah!
02:06I mean, you know, plot.
02:07You know what I'm saying?
02:08But, you know, I mean, every day.
02:11I mean, I'm vegan.
02:12I be pushing for the electric vegan and not just the one who, you know, settles for comfort
02:16foods.
02:17But, you know, like I said, every day a little bit of sacrifice so that you can get what you
02:21want.
02:22God has done a lot for me, man.
02:23I was living in a car for a long time and had to really sacrifice, I guess, making the
02:32quick thing happen.
02:33I had to sacrifice kind of certain things to make sure the marathon was what I focused
02:38on instead of being that overnight thing, which I didn't really want to be.
02:41But this project alone, I think, except in this project, we did this whole film within
02:45a year.
02:46You know, a little less than a year.
02:47And with that, you sacrifice a lot.
02:49You put your life to the side.
02:50You know, I remember speaking to Ryan and he's like, you know, make sure you find something
02:53personal with this project because you're about to go all in.
02:56And when I did, you know, I got a wife.
02:58You know what I mean?
02:59So it's like anything that we had planned, we got to kind of put on hold.
03:02Anything that I had that I was writing on or working on, you had to put on hold.
03:05Just because you have to give your all to one certain thing so that way it comes out great.
03:11That's how I would do it.
03:12I think that's really important.
03:13I think that's really important.
03:14You're going to give it a chance.
03:15I'm going to give it a chance.
03:16I've got some questions.
03:17I'm going to give it a chance.
03:20It's really important.
03:21I'm in the one thing.
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