…confident he knew the advice Apollo would give his son.
“If Apollo Creed was there to counsel his son, it would probably be, in my mind: ‘Don’t do this. You don’t have to do this. The reason I sweat and bled the way I did was so that you didn’t have to,'” says Weathers. “And then if his son insists and is going to do it come hell or high water, then who better to show his son the ropes than the greatest.”
Weathers had nothing but praise for the film’s star, Michael B. Jordan saying, “You did well for the CREED name! Congrats on great job, my friend! May your success continue. #BePeace”
“I love what I do,” adds Carl. “I love providing images for black folk that are proactively. Something that allows me and others to look at the screen and say, ‘I can relate to that.’ That feels good. That’s always been important to me.”