Evan Romano, Philip Ellis

Taran Tatical (real name: Taran Butler, a championship sharpshooter and frequent trainer of Hollywood stars like Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry for John Wick) shared a video recently on his very popular YouTube channel, showing exactly the sort of back work that MBJ put in when training for his role as one of the MCU's very best villains.

"Hands down one of the best Ive ever trained," he says of B. Jordan in the video description. The video is similar to many of Taran Tatical's, showing the star work his way through an obstacle course/target practice hybrid, laughing it off when he gets a second to breathe.

As you can see in the video above, his jacked arms weren't the only guns on show in Black Panther: fans will remember the ruthlessness with which Killmonger shot his girlfriend and partner in crime. Jordan previously shared a behind the scenes video in which he showed off his mad marksmanship skills. "Since everybody wanna show off let me show what Killmonger can do," he wrote in the Instagram post, which has since been deleted.

Back in 2019, Jordan revealed <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a26208828/michael-b-jordan-therapist-black-panther-killmonger/" id="9a85aec0-24de-3333-add7-a6db115b65a4"> in an interview with Oprah Winfrey </a> that playing Killmonger took its toll, and that he sought out a therapist after filming ended.

"I was by myself, isolating myself," he said. "I spent a lot of time alone. "I figured Erik, his childhood growing up was pretty lonely. He didn't have a lot of people he could talk to about this place called Wakanda that didn't exist... So to be able to take that kind of pain and rage and all those emotions that Erik kind of represents from being black and brown here in America... That was something I didn't take lightly... I didn't have an escape plan, either. When it was all over, I think just being in that kind of mind state... It caught up with me."

Readjusting to letting people back in was a process which therapy helped him with, and Jordan said he'd like to see less of a stigma attached to men taking care of themselves with regards to their mental health: "As a man you get a lot of slack for it. I dont really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk."

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It's been more than two years since Black Panther came out, and with the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, no one knows when any part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will really pick back up. Still, people remain talking about Michael B. Jordan's performance as antagonist and pretender to the throne, Erik Killmonger. The actor made quite the impression in the movie, not just with a final line that ranks alongside Rutger Hauer's "tears in rain" speech from Blade Runner in all-time great dialogu...

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