Michael B. Jordan, Jonathan Majors Want to Be New De Niro, Pacino

Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors are two peas in a pod — a lot so, in actual fact, they are saying they wanna observe within the footsteps of two different legends … Bob and Al.

The actors sat down with NYT to discuss their new film, “Creed III,” which is out in theaters and, thus far, cleansing up properly — each by way of field workplace and critic critiques. Not simply that, however their dynamic/explosive chemistry on-screen is the speak of the city proper now.

In the Q&A, JM and MBJ are very complimentary of one another. At one level, the interviewer asks whose opinion they worth probably the most when it comes to ‘Creed.’ Majors says he solely actually cared what Mike thought … which prompts the interviewer to ask the subsequent logical query.

NYT says, “The way you two talk about each other, it sounds like this is the first of many collaborations to come,” to which MBJ says … “It is. We plan on it.” Then, the haymaker … Majors follows up and says, “De Niro and Pacino.”

To that, Mike says this … “We’re excited about that, and I have those conversations with him. Acting is such a solo journey, where you’re fighting for your place on that call sheet for such a long time. So when you’ve got somebody that doesn’t care as much about that stuff, it’s like, ‘Let’s go. How much damage can we do together?’ Majors responds, “All of it.”

In different phrases, they’re prepared to paint the city pink with extra motion pictures, it appears — and it additionally seems like each Mike and Jon fancy themselves nearly as good as two performing greats … however the web does not essentially agree, each within the duo comparability and the one-on-one résumés.

Fact is, Al and Bob had been solely in a small handful of films collectively — “Heat” and “Godfather Pt. 2” being probably the most well-known, earlier than “The Irishman” got here round — and every of them had stellar catalogs of critically-acclaimed flicks beneath their belt properly earlier than they ever collab’d.

So, the juxtaposition does not fairly make sense there. But, extra importantly, some really feel like they’re leaping the gun … as neither JM or MBJ have been in sufficient motion pictures to warrant such lofty esteem. Even by way of chops, there’s questions … on Mike’s finish, particularly.

While nearly everybody’s stoked on the notion that these two studs are planning on working collectively extra — seeing how they’re nice in “Creed III,” by all accounts — the way in which it is popping out is getting a little bit side-eye. Just a smidge, although … largely by film snobs.