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Michael B. Jordan Calls The Racist 'Fantastic Four' Backlash "Expected"

By Dustin Rowles | Miscellaneous | March 7, 2014 |

By Dustin Rowles | Miscellaneous | March 7, 2014 |


You might have been surprised/disappointed by some of the racist responses to the news that Michael B. Jordan will be playing “historically” white Johnny Storm, but Jordan himself wasn’t all that surprised. Jordan recently said,

It was expected. You kinda know going into it that people are used to seeing something one way, it’s a continuity thing more than anything. People don’t like change too much. But annoyed? Eh, you just kinda accept it, it is what it is. You can’t make everybody happy. You just gotta accept that and know. I’m an actor, I have to do my job. I’m going to do my job the best I can and the way I’ve been doing it my entire life, my entire career. I grew up a comic book guy, I read comic books as a kid growing up, and the Fantastic Four/Human Torch is one of my favorite characters so I’m going to give it my everything. I can’t wait. I don’t really let it bother me at all. I just want to go into it and do the best job I can. We’ll see what happens.

Jordan is actually taking the high road there, citing “continuity” as the sticking point. But Jordan seems to be letting the rampant douchebaggery slide right off his back.

The Human Torch is, ‘yknow, that’s fun. That’s going to be a good time…To play a superhero? That’s dreams coming true. It’s not going to be hard. It’s going to be fun to kind of show a side of me that I don’t really get to show on screen, to be a little bit lighter, funnier, just more personality. It’s going to be fun.