Black Panther star Michael B Jordan's previous crack at the superhero genre didn't go too well.
The actor starred as Johnny Storm in Josh Trank's ill-fated Fantastic Four movie, which flopped massively both with critics and at the box office.
However, it did not deter him from joining another Marvel franchise, as his turn as baddie Erik Killmonger in Black Panther proves.
Jordan said to ScreenRant that he had "zero hesitation to do another comic book movie", and that he hoped to make up for Fantastic Four with this one.
"I guess I got brought in later in the game because that was the natural process – we and [director] Ryan [Coogler] still talked every day, and I still, still kind of in an unofficial capacity, had always been part of it," he said.
"No hesitation, really, to do another comic book film. I'm a geek, I love this world, I love being able to play in that fantastic kind of space.
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"I looked at it as another shot to get it right, to do it again, and especially teaming up with [Director of Photography] Rachel [Morrison] again and Ryan [after working with them on Fruitvale Station], it's a very comfortable space with me. It's the perfect space for me to take another risk like this, so it was no hesitation on my part."
Jordan previously defended Fantastic Four, saying to Digital Spy: "I stand by anything I get in front of.
"But at the end of the day so many things come into place with a film that makes it successful or not, and a lot of it is outside of the actors' control.
"For me, going to work every day, I put 110% into everything I do," he continued. "So I stand by my work ethic and the performance I put in."
Black Panther hits cinemas on February 9 in the UK and on February 16 in the US.
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