Eager to become the new heavyweight champion of the world, boxer Damian Anderson trains by running in the streets of Los Angeles. In particular, it crosses the 1st Street viaduct, before joining Muscle Beach in Venice, near Santa Monica and its legendary pier.
“Oh do you have the nerves? Spend half your life in jail watching someone live your life. I want everything I’m entitled to.”
Damian Anderson (Jonathan Majors)
It’s always tricky for a director to shoot in one city while setting the action of a film in another, but sometimes there’s no shortcut. This is how Michael B. Jordan had to film a few scenes in Los Angeles, where the plot of Creed 3, although the studios for the indoor scenes were located in Atlanta, several thousand miles away. In Los Angeles where the actor-director filmed Jonathan Majors running on the 1 overpassst Street, not far from Little Tokyo.
An actor in the process of rebuilding
Playing Damian Anderson, the main opponent of Andonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) represented a real challenge for Jonathan Majors, as he explained to the New York Times : “A character’s psychology manifests in their body and Damian’s required body language was so great! I play someone who is connected to Adonis. (…) The way Damian walks, the way he fights… I was trying to give as much information as possible. Not to mention the fact that he is a world heavyweight champion coming out of prison. I had to deal with all that characterization. I completely changed my acting wardrobe playing this guy.”
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Michael B. Jordan wanted Jonathan Majors to amaze viewers with his muscularity. He had to represent an adversary at the height. This is why Damian Anderson is very dressed for the majority of the film. “I wanted him to be very dressed up before the reveal, when he finally steps into the ring and everyone sees his body for the first time.“, detailed Michael B. Jordan still in the same press title.
Creed 3 is the first movie Creed where no real boxer faces the main character in the final fight. Indeed, Adonis Creed faced the champion Tony Bellew in the first part and the boxer Florian Munteanu in the second. Two sportsmen despite everything present in the credits of Creed 3.
1st Street Viaduct
This viaduct takes place in one of the most famous streets of Los Angeles.
Built in concrete, this bridge is one of the centers of interest of the 1st Street in the City of Angels, alongside the Beverly Center, Disney Hall, City Hall and Little Tokyo. Built to span the famous canals, popularized many times in the cinema, the viaduct is one of the bridges mentioned by the writer Joe Linton in his book Down by the Los Angeles River.
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Cults! cinema: 100 mythical cinema locations
Since the tremors of cinema, films have invaded the world and highlighted sometimes unexpected places. Each filming location has its own secrets. These are even sometimes as exciting as the feature films themselves.
Did you know that the cemetery in which the final duel of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly was built from scratch and that no body lies there? Or that the busInto The Wild was moved in order to dissuade the fans from coming to spend the night there? From the history of the construction of the River Kwai Bridge to the incredible meeting during the filming of the last scene ofIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, embark on an exciting world tour in the company of the greatest stars of the seventh art. Chill in the real haunted house ofAmityville and discover the terrifying anecdotes of the making ofApocalypse Now in the Phillippines. Visit the building Blade Runner before stopping at Hogwarts to finally land at Jurassic Park, in the middle of the Hawaiian archipelago. And if we also took you behind the scenes of the making of the village of the Hobbits of the Lord of the Rings ?
Produced by a team of pop-culture specialists and embellished with numerous anecdotes, Cults! movie theater tells the secrets of places that have made the history of cinema.
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Par Gilles Rolland
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Passionate about cinema, rock and roll, TV series and literature. Press editor and author of the books Heavy Metal in the Movies, Guns N’ Roses Fan Words, Rammstein Fan Words and Welcome to my Jungle: 100 Rock Albums and Other Mismatched Anecdotes. Also loves traveling in search of the most emblematic places of pop culture.
