After a year away from American soil, directing “The Thomas Crown Affair” in London, Michael B. Jordan is back — and he’s getting back into the swing of things.

In Ryan Coogler’s “ Sinners ,” set in 1930s Jim Crow-era Mississippi, Jordan plays twin brothers navigating a world where survival and ambition collide with supernatural forces. It’s a role that demanded everything from the actor and showcased depths we haven’t seen before.

“I think his level of detail and personalization and specificity that he tends to create, along with the empathy that goes into his work and his art, I think is what is food for the soul,” Jordan says of his longtime collaborator. The two have built one of modern cinema’s most consistent actor-director partnerships, from “Fruitvale Station” to “Black Panth

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