Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler on SINNERS, Lore, and Filmmaking

You know what I'm saying? I

mean, can you talk a little bit about that? Because

you

told me you did not drink coffee growing up.

What was your first introduction to coffee and how do you end up wanting to make coffee?

My first true introduction to coffee was at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.

So I was like early 20s.

I think I actually turned 23 at that festival.

And before then, I didn't think of coffee as something I was...

I didn't think coffee was something that was for me.

It was something for other people.

Like the girls drank it.

Like the girls would drink it.

You know what I mean? They'll drink like a...

Frappuccino from 7-Eleven or whatever.

You know what I mean? But yeah, bro, I even had a homie, I was telling Paula, I had a homie who used to drink it while we played football.

We would make fun of him.

We called him a grandpa.

He'd come in the locker room with a thermos and he'd be like, man, it's the old Tribune.

But after that film festival, bro, I was jet lagged out there and they had a big sponsorship with George Clooney as a festival.

So I was seeing George Clooney drink it all the time.

a little commercials and pictures.

And I was like jet lag, falling asleep in screenings.

So I said, man, let me try it, bro.

They had a free station in what they call like the Palais.