Jordan Coleman, the 28-year-old son of hizzoner Eric Adams, doesn’t have Gracie Mansion aspirations of his own.
Rather, the young actor/rapper has 007 dreams.
“I like to see myself as being a half gangster and half a scholar,” Coleman told The Post. “I think that will present itself well in the James Bond kind of setting.”
He’s not following in the footsteps of Daniel Craig just yet, but he does play a secret agent in his new short film “Striking Back,” a zombie-thriller film that he also directed, wrote, and did the music for. It debuts privately at Freehold Hospitality in Williamsburg on Thursday night.
“James Bond is one of my favorite films series and I always looked up to Jason Bourne and films like that,” Coleman said. “I kind of wanted to just make a version of them for myself. I always enjoyed a good zombie show, so I made something that could combine the two.”
“Striking Back,” which was shot on Staten Island for roughly $10,000 that Coleman scraped together, is just one of his many creative endeavors over the decades.
Mayor Eric Adams’ son, Jordan Coleman, is playing a secret agent in a new film he’s directing. Coleman aspires one day to play James Bond. Paul MartinkaHe began acting as an 11-year-old as the voice of Tyrone the Moose on Nickelodeon’s The Backyardigans.”
A year later, he directed the documentary like “Say It Loud,” which focused on the importance of education for African American boys and featured interviews with Kobe Bryant, Michael Strahan and Ludacris.
In 2011, he wrote and directed the drama “Payin’ the Price,” which starred his mother, Chrisena Coleman, Adams’s ex-girlfriend and a former crime reporter for the Daily News.
Coleman is playing a secret agent in a film he’s directing titled “Striking Back.” Courtesy of Rollin StudiosThis past March, he released his debut rap album “Jordanunder his moniker “Jayoo.”
“It’s definitely been an experience being a child star, going off to college and trying to find your way back to the celebrity stardom that you had,” said Coleman, who has a Bachelor’s degree from American University and a Master’s from Brooklyn’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.
Chrisena and Adams split when Coleman was very young, and Chrisena went on to marry and is now battling dementia. Coleman, who currently lives in Hackensack with his stepdad and half-brother, said he and his father are close and the mayor is going to try to make the screening.
Coleman put a surprise in the film for his father, Mayor Eric Adams. Charles Wenzelberg/New York PostIf he does, he’ll catch a “special surprise” in the movie that’s in there just for him.
“He just wants me to stay on the right track and make sure that I follow my dreams,” said Coleman, who previously worked as a creative coordinator for Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. “He always wants me to have a mission and a game plan.”
One thing that Adams might not love in “Striking Back” is some of its music.
Coleman is also pursuing a career in rap. Tamara BeckwithIt features drill rap, a hip-hop subgenre that the mayor has publicly denounced for its association with street violence, as its lyrics often center around gangs.
Coleman hopes his dad will eventually open his mind about it.
“I think that there needs to be more conversations around it if it’s truly becoming an issue,” he said. “But I think that his eyes will definitely open up,”






