After winning an Oscar for playing a double, Michael B. Jordan celebrated by ordering a Double-Double.
In several viral videos (watch them below), the Sinners star shocked and thrilled customers at an In-N-Out Burger by visiting the humble fast food joint after winning for the Academy Award for best actor on Sunday.
The grinning actor was greeted by cheers and shouts of “congratulations!” from the crowd — and he was still holding his gold statue.
Jordan bested some very tough competition to win his first Oscar, including top rival Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme, along with Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon and Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent.
Accepting the award for the innovative vampire hit, Jordan thanked writer-director Ryan Coogler, who he also worked with on Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
“I’m so honored to call you a collaborator and a friend,” he said. “You gave me the opportunity and space for me to be seen and I love you to death.”
“I stand here because of the people that came before me: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Will Smith,” Jordan added in his speech. “To be amongst those giants, amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it.
“Everybody at home who supported Sinners, who went to go see the movie one, two, three, four, five times, thank you, because you guys made this movie what it is. I love you,” Jordan concluded.
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Sinners received a record-breaking 16 nominations, but only took home four (including Coogler for best original screenplay), Ludwig Goransson for best original score and Autumn Durald Arkapaw for best cinematography (the first woman to ever win the award).
The horror-thriller film is set in 1930s Mississippi, and Jordan plays twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who return to their hometown and open a juke joint — only to face vampires taking over.
