Michael B. Jordan Reveals His Mom’s Reaction To Nikki Glaser’s NSFW Quip

Michael B. Jordan can deal with just a little awards-show chaos, nevertheless it was his mother, Donna, who ended up stealing the second after Nikki Glaser’s raunchy Golden Globes joke left the room shook. Now, the “Sinners” star is spilling what it was actually like watching her response play out in actual time, revealing why she barely batted a watch, and the way her cellphone lit up with memes earlier than the evening was even over.

Michael B. Jordan could also be Hollywood’s certified heartthrob, however even he couldn’t assist laughing when his mother’s response to a really NSFW Golden Globes joke stole the highlight.

The 38-year-old actor stopped by “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” on Monday, January 12, the place he recapped attending the Golden Globe Awards the evening earlier than and the second host Nikki Glaser took a raunchy swing at him throughout her opening monologue. “I can’t consider it, we bought two Michael B. Jordans,” Glaser stated whereas referencing his roles in “Sinners.” “After I noticed that, I used to be like Nikki B. Jerkin’ as a result of that was superior.”

The digicam instantly reduce to Jordan’s mother, Donna, sitting within the crowd subsequent to the actor, and her response was immediately meme-able. She rolled her eyes and took a sip of her drink because the room laughed, a deadpan response that rapidly grew to become one of many evening’s most replayed moments.

Glaser acknowledged she could have crossed a line as soon as she realized Donna was within the crowd, rapidly following up her joke with, “I’m so sorry. That ought to’ve been a DM.”

Jordan told Kimmel that whereas he had a good time on the Globes, his mother ended up being the actual star of the night. “I had enjoyable, however my mother stole the present,” he stated with amusing, including that Donna’s pals have been blowing up her cellphone with memes and clips from the second.

When Kimmel requested whether or not it makes his mother uncomfortable to see girls overtly thirsting over him, Jordan didn’t hesitate, particularly contemplating he’s been coping with that public notion for years, together with being named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2020. “I believe by now she’s used to it,” Jordan defined. “So she simply offers just a little eye roll and simply kinda retains it pushing. She does not actually reply an excessive amount of.”

And regardless of the awkwardness of being the butt of a spicy joke together with his mother within the viewers, Jordan made it clear he wouldn’t commerce the expertise. Requested in regards to the professionals and cons of bringing Donna as his date to award reveals, he stated the evening was all positives, together with hitting an afterparty the place she had a blast.

“We went to an afterparty, we had just a little enjoyable, she was dancing and stuff. Mama had fun,” he stated, including, “I do not actually suppose it is a draw back to bringing mother to an occasion, solely upside.”

Jordan’s evening on the Globes was nonetheless a win general. He was nominated for Greatest Actor in a Movement Image – Drama for “Sinners,” which earned seven nominations and took dwelling awards for Greatest Unique Rating and Cinematic and Field Workplace Achievement.

“I simply need to thank the viewers for exhibiting up. It means the world. This film was made by a whole lot of individuals,” Ryan Coogler shared in the course of the group’s Field Workplace Achievement acceptance speech. “We don’t at all times, after we work within the movie enterprise, put on tuxedos and get glammed out. It’s normally a grind. We have been sporting efficiency fishing gear…we have been within the swamps.”