Once it was announced that Michael B. Jordan would play Johnny Storm, some fans were upset because a white fictional character was going to played by a black actor. I could understand them being upset if the character was real, because I went off when I saw the cast to the exodus movie. But he isn’t so I don’t understand. plus Michael got the thumbs up to play Johnny Torch by Stan Lee. So these Bitter Bettys can go somewhere. Let me stop before a rant comes on. Check out what Michael B. Jordan had to say about the critics below.
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“It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore,” he wrote. “I can see everybody’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, ‘You’re good. I’m okay with this,’ who am I to go against that?”
“This is a family movie about four friends — two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister — who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it,” he added.
Jordan expressed a desire to “set an example,” hopefully leading to more performers of color in prominent Hollywood roles rather than being “true to the comic book.” To conclude, he addressed “trolls on the Internet” directly, saying, “Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.”