Go behind the scenes with Michael B. Jordan and Director Ryan Coogler as they break down the trailer for their highly anticipated thriller, Sinners. The dynamic duo shares exclusive insights into the story, hidden details you might have missed, and how they brought this supernatural vision to life. From Ryan vision for building a morally complex narrative where every character has their own dark truths to the subtle easter eggs that hint at the twists and turns waiting for audiences.
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00:00We're really, really, really trying not to give you guys any spoilers.
00:03Yeah.
00:04We're trying hard.
00:05Seriously.
00:06We're really trying hard.
00:07It's the first time that you see the twins in a movie, and it's the first time that you
00:14see them here in the trailer.
00:17You twins?
00:18Nah, we cousins.
00:19Obviously, that's two Michael B. Jordans there.
00:22Playing twins was definitely a challenge.
00:24It was part of the reason why I wanted to take the role.
00:27Ryan really built two characters that were very much so different, but kind of the same
00:34as well.
00:35Stack is going to be in red throughout the movie, and Smoke's going to be in blue.
00:40That's the easiest way to tell them apart.
00:41The film takes place over one day, so these are the outfits of the day, but there's definitely
00:46some color story going on.
00:49Smoke doesn't smile often.
00:50If you smile, then more than likely it's Stack, nine times out of ten.
00:54First day of shooting.
00:56You walked on the set as Smoke, and I already told you this, but it unnerved me quite a
01:01bit.
01:02Did it?
01:03Yeah, you showed up.
01:04It was a trip.
01:05I was like, oh shit, this is going to be a wild ride, because he didn't feel like I was
01:09talking to you.
01:10That's a beautiful performance you put down.
01:13I appreciate it.
01:14Knowing you, you're closer to Stack.
01:16Yeah.
01:17The people who know me, know me, know me for real, I think they're going to enjoy it because
01:22they'll see the side of me I don't show.
01:25It's in there.
01:26It's in there.
01:27Thankfully.
01:28Yeah, you don't want to see me as Smoke on the ride.
01:32Nah, nah, nah.
01:33Smoke is a pretty scary guy.
01:35The film takes place in 1932, and if you know your American history, that was in the waning
01:39years of the Volstead Act, which made production and sale and consumption of alcohol illegal.
01:47The shot, that's beer bottles there on the back of a truck that's heading out in the
01:52backwoods of Mississippi.
01:54It's the equivalent of having an illicit drug today, you know what I'm saying, the era of
01:59prohibition.
02:00Take it back right quick.
02:01Y'all ready to drink.
02:02Y'all ready to sweat till y'all sick.
02:03A lot of film explorers like dichotomy of American culture, and the relationship between
02:10the church and the juke joint is often times-
02:13It's a conflicted one.
02:14Yeah, but it's actually the same, it's the same type of environment, you know what I
02:18mean?
02:19You'll see the same people, Saturday night they acting crazy, Sunday morning they acting
02:22holy.
02:23Yep.
02:24But it's the same people.
02:25Same people.
02:26It was good to get those juxtaposed images.
02:27Daytime, you know what I'm saying?
02:28Daytime and nighttime.
02:29Nighttime.
02:30Yeah, shit get a little funky.
02:31This is our first look at Jack O'Connell's character, Rimmick, who is a lot of fun.
02:37What the hell going on?
02:39Oh, we heard tale of a party.
02:41He's our main antagonist for a good chunk of the film.
02:45The twins are the scariest characters that people are interacting with until they meet
02:49this guy who's bringing a whole nother element to the characters that hopefully we've fallen
02:52in love with at this point.
02:53He's playing a different type of game.
02:56He's playing a different set of rules, yeah.
03:00You don't need no saving.
03:02Yes, you do.
03:03So, he's talking to Hayley about save her, and she's thinking he's talking about like
03:06in a religious way, and Mary, she herself is past that, but he's talking about something
03:12else entirely.
03:13A little more supernatural.
03:14A little more supernatural.
03:15Yeah.
03:17We got us a problem, y'all.
03:19Dan Roy, Mr. Delta Slim.
03:21Delta Slim.
03:22So, Delta Slim is a hometown hero as well, a phenomenal piano player.
03:28He gets convinced and bribed a little bit to come join the gang for the night and go
03:35on this little adventure with us, and he ends up being a pillar of strength amongst the
03:42group when things get a little crazy, a little supernatural.
03:48He adds a lot of-
03:49Everything.
03:50Adds a lot of everything.
03:51He did a phenomenal job.
03:52Yeah.
03:53I've been watching Del Roy my whole life.
03:54One of the first movies I ever saw was Malcolm X, and he turns in an insane performance in
04:05that movie, and he's always brilliant.
04:07He's different in this.
04:08To work with him and to see what he brought every day, it's an incredible performance.
04:13Cornbread.
04:14Cornbread.
04:15The film was an incredible opportunity to work with actors that I always admired, that
04:19I hadn't worked with before, like Del Roy, Haley, Jack, but Omar was at the top of the
04:25list.
04:26I think he was the only person that really could have played this character, Cornbread,
04:29who's also a neighborhood guy.
04:31He knows the twins, has history with them, but he's also just a guy trying to get by
04:36at a time when it was very difficult to do that.
04:39He's great in the movie, but this particular scene is.
04:42It was so hard to shoot.
04:43So hard to shoot, but so rewarding.
04:44Yeah, it's so rewarding, man.
04:45Thanks for putting up with us, man.
04:46Yeah, you so good.
04:47Yeah.
04:48Because we definitely broke a lot during this sequence.
04:49Yeah.
04:50There was a lot of laughter.
04:51Yeah.
04:52Things would be like-
04:53Super dramatic.
04:54Super intense and dramatic, but also like-
04:55Very funny.
04:56Hilarious at times.
04:57Yes.
04:58It's a lot of internal conflict in the movie, and all the relationships get turned on their
04:59head at some point in the movie.
05:00Yeah.
05:01Yeah.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Yeah.
05:04Yeah.
05:05Yeah.
05:06Yeah.
05:07Yeah.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Yeah.
05:12We got a lot of internal conflict at some point in the film.
05:13Mm-hmm.
05:14And Smoke and Stock are inseparable, and something that happens that really challenges, existential
05:18challenge to that relationship.
05:19Yes.
05:20Hey.
05:21I didn't mean to scare you.
05:22Thought y'all done forgot about me in here.
05:23Come on, open the door.
05:24Let me on out of here.
05:25Stay.
05:26It's you?
05:27Of course it's me.
05:28Open the door.
05:29That ain't your brother.
05:30It's you.
05:31It's you.
05:32It's you.
05:33It's you.
05:34It's you.
05:35It's you.
05:36It's you.
05:37It's you.
05:38It's you.
05:39It's you.
05:40It's you.
05:41You
05:51Crazy yeah, I mean, that's the movie