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" \nWe have deep emotional ties to Michael B. Jordan thanks to his mastery of troubled TV characters with hearts of gold. See: Vince on Friday Night Lights, Wallace on The Wire, and Alex on Parenthood.  In person, we learned 25-year-old Michael a) looks wonderful in a leather jacket and b) is about to be a huge movie star, with a leading man role in the upcoming Sundance Film Festival flick Fruitvale. Also, lucky for everyone, he is somehow single and hasn&amp;#039;t had a girlfriend since he was 18.  Cosmo: So, you arrived by yourself. No entourage! Michael: Nobody&amp;#039;s mobbing me outside. I just get a few people\u2014old white ladies or random little girls. The little girls be like, &amp;quot;I love you on The Wire!,&amp;quot; and I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Why would you even know me from The Wire?!&amp;quot; It doesn&amp;#039;t bother me, though. When I&amp;#039;ve seen the people who had influence on me, I was literally like, &amp;quot;Oh man. Wow.&amp;quot; Cosmo: Like who? MBJ: I met Ryan Gosling one time and it was so cheesy. I was like, &amp;quot;Um, I&amp;#039;m an actor\u2026and you&amp;#039;re an, um, actor, and I think you&amp;#039;re awesome, and I kinda made my career after you a little bit?&amp;quot;  Cosmo: Any other role models? MBJ: You have the usual suspects that sometimes I get annoyed at saying: Denzel, Will Smith, of course, Laurence Fishburne. But also Joseph Gordon Levitt. I&amp;#039;m very colorless. That&amp;#039;s one of my biggest things. When I first started my career, I didn&amp;#039;t want anybody to look at me as a black actor. That pisses me off. It&amp;#039;s not about that, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re the next Will Smith or Denzel.&amp;quot; Why not the next Ryan Gosling?      Yes, we made a Michael B. Jordan gif. Cosmo: You&amp;#039;re becoming a movie star yourself with the Sundance movie Fruitvale, about Oscar Grant, who was shot by a transit police officer in Oakland, Calif. in 2009. How did you prepare? MBJ: It&amp;#039;s the most work I&amp;#039;ve ever put into anything. I spent a lot of time with his family, with his daughter, with his baby moms, all his best friends that were with him when he got murdered. I put on some weight, grew out my hair, and got the dialect down. Hopefully it gets the distribution that it deserves. Cosmo: What made you want to take on this role? MBJ: This script was like an actor&amp;#039;s wet dream. This was kind of my first job as the lead. I&amp;#039;m in every scene and that&amp;#039;s a lot of pressure, but I just wanted to make sure I took advantage of the opportunity. Since I started on television, I want to kind of branch over to the other side. I think TV will always be there waiting for me to come back whenever I decide. Cosmo: Are you going to work with Jason Katims (FNL and Parenthood producer) again?  MBJ: I&amp;#039;m pretty sure we will. I write a lot and I&amp;#039;ve been developing a couple TV shows and Jason was very influential in that process. His opinion matters to me a lot.  Cosmo: Tell us about the TV show you&amp;#039;re developing!  MBJ: I got a couple developing right now that I can&amp;#039;t really talk about. I&amp;#039;ll give you this-it&amp;#039;s like a mixture of Friday Night Lights, The Wire, and Parenthood. It has the family element and the phoenix rising from the ashes. It&amp;#039;s set in Detroit, Michigan; the guy goes to Michigan State. It&amp;#039;s got some sports elements to it. I am going to be in it, but it&amp;#039;s a character that I can disappear enough from if I want to go do a film. And I&amp;#039;m definitely not getting shot anymore, I&amp;#039;m over dying. Cosmo: We have a movie idea for you. The Friday night Lights movie. Thoughts? MBJ: I don&amp;#039;t know if the dream will ever be dead, but I would just leave it be and go out on top. What if you roll the dice and it&amp;#039;s a horrible movie? I&amp;#039;m pretty sure Jason would crush it and kill it, but if it just bombs, then what? You&amp;#039;ll be upset, you&amp;#039;ll be mad, you&amp;#039;ll be let down. We don&amp;#039;t want to let our fans down. Cosmo: You&amp;#039;re crushing our dreams right now. What if Jason Katims called and was like, &amp;quot;Hey, want to do the FNL movie?&amp;quot; MBJ: If he was like, &amp;quot;Hey, Mike, I need you to come and play Vince again,&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;d be like, &amp;quot;Yeah, I&amp;#039;ll strap &amp;#039;em on one more time for you.&amp;quot; I would. Cosmo: We also want to know if you&amp;#039;re ever going to come back to Parenthood. MBJ: I don&amp;#039;t think I want to come back to TV unless it&amp;#039;s something I have a little more control over. Or if they want me to do an arc on Boardwalk (Empire) or Homeland, I&amp;#039;d do that! I wouldn&amp;#039;t mind going on Mad Men. Or Girls. I&amp;#039;d definitely do Girls. Cosmo: Lena Dunham, call this guy. For more from Michelle, follow her on Twitter @michelleruiz.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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