Los Angeles Feb 10 (IANS) Actor Michael B. Jordan who essays Erik Stevens a.k.a Killmonger in the film "Black Panther" trained for more than a year for the film.
Jordan 31 has compared his training to a Swiss army knife reports metro.co.uk.
Speaking at the European premiere of "Black Panther" on Thursday Jordan said: "I spent a lot of time alone. Erik s a very lonely guy a very pained character so that s part of it. And also like physically preparing for it working out training it was kind of a Swiss army knife of a lot of different skill sets. So training for about a year and half before we started filming really helped with the preparation for the role."
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures "Black Panther" also features Chadwick Boseman Lupita Nyong o Danai Gurira Letitia Wright Angela Bassett Forest Whittaker and Martin Freeman.
The film is scheduled to release in India on February 16.
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