Highlights
- Michael B. Jordan says he got sick for four days straight the day after winning his very first Oscar.
- He plans to take most of 2027 off once he finishes promoting his Thomas Crown Affair remake next spring.
- Jordan hints his Thomas Crown won’t be a bored billionaire, jokes about quitting Hollywood for anime.
Michael B. Jordan finally has an Oscar. His body, apparently, had other plans for the victory lap.
The 39-year-old Sinners star covers Vogue‘s October issue, and buried in the glossy career retrospective is a detail that makes awards season look a lot less fun than it plays on TV: the day after his Best Actor win in March, Jordan got sick. Not stressed-out sick. Actually, physically down-for-the-count sick. Four days of recovery, IV drip included.
He put it plainly to Vogue — his body basically clocked out the second the job was finished: “Alright, I got you here, time to shut down for a second.”
Friends flew in from New Jersey to celebrate. They ordered food, told stories, relived the whole night. Jordan could hear it happening around him. He wasn’t fully in it.
Now he’s doing the thing every burned-out A-lister threatens to do and almost never actually does: taking a real break. Once he wraps promo on his Thomas Crown Affair reboot next spring, Jordan says most of 2027 is getting cleared off the books, set aside to process a run that’s clearly left him running on fumes.
Before that, though, the slate is packed. He’s finishing the Thomas Crown remake, which he’s directing, producing and starring in. Next up is a Miami Vice reboot alongside Austin Butler, plus producing Delphi, a Creed spinoff.
Thomas Crown already comes with its own drama. Adria Arjona replaced Taylor Russell in the female lead last summer after Russell exited amid reported creative differences. Jordan didn’t touch that. What he did reveal: his version of the con-man title character won’t be some bored rich guy doing crimes for sport. He suggested audiences have aged out of that fantasy, and that his Crown gets an actual motive.
Then there’s the ego check. Asked whether he’d have been satisfied staying a respected character actor instead of chasing leading-man status, Jordan didn’t pretend to be above ambition. He wants to be mentioned among the greats. He’s also not a fan of the term “movie star” — he’d rather be called a “leading man,” which says plenty about how deliberately he’s engineering this career.
He also floated a full pivot: quitting the industry entirely to make anime. Vogue’s take is that he might be only half kidding.
The cover itself mattered to him too. He pointed to the team behind the shoot — a Black stylist, a Latino photographer — as part of what made a Black man on the cover of American Vogue feel like something bigger than a fashion moment.
On his personal life, Vogue stayed vague, and Jordan stayed vaguer. His past relationship with Lori Harvey is still the reference point everyone brings up, and recent sightings with singer Raye have fed fresh speculation. He didn’t confirm a thing.
Translation: the man just won an Oscar, nearly collapsed doing it, and still isn’t opening the door on his love life. 2027 is apparently when we find out what’s actually going on with him — if he decides to tell us at all.
