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Article: Jonathan Majors is probably the most exciting actor to come along this
All of this has happened in the last two years: when much of the global population was in lockdown, Majors was climbing his way onto the A-list two steps at a time. And he did it at such a speed that most of the world hasn’t even had time to learn his name, or even memorise his face. So, who the hell is Jonathan Majors?
Jonathan Majors in 'The Harder They Fall'
Da 5 Bloods, which put him toe-to-toe with actors, including Delroy Lindo and Clarke Peters, who have been acting for longer than he’s been alive. Then he was the lead role in FX’s popular but surprisingly short-lived series Lovecraft Country, in which he played a young man searching for his father in a part of America infested with supernatural creatures. The two projects were baptisms of fire, and Majors came through without a single scorch mark.
“Lovecraft Country, I was the lead and the new guy,” he says. “All these other people had done hundreds of things. I’d never even been on TV! I was to lead the show. So that experience, along with working with all veterans in Da 5 Bloods, allowed me not to lose my mind and be able to play on that level.”
Lovecraft Country
The Harder They Fall
mysterychick · Nov 1, 2021 at 10:10 PM
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‘The Harder They Fall’ (Picture: Netflix)
If 2020 and 2021 have been big for Majors, they are probably just the warm-up. He already has huge projects set for 2022 and 2023. As soon as he leaves London, Majors begins a six-week fight camp to prepare to play second-lead in Creed 3. The latest in the hugely successful Rocky spin-off franchise will see its star, Michael B. Jordan, make his directing debut. Jordan and Majors have already spoken at length about taking the film in a new direction. Previous films have seen Creed fighting enemies in the ring, but Majors says this one is different as he is not simply playing a villain. “Michael is really trying to do something different with this Creed,” he says. “Something that’s a bit more intimate. With intimacy comes complexity. It’s he and I. It’s a story about these two men trying to work something out, and it’s very different from the others.”
The biggest project of his career so far, however, comes in February 2023 – and it’s so big that he’s already been filming it for most of this year and won’t finish until 2022. If you watched the Disney+ series Loki you’ll remember Majors from the final episode, in which he was revealed as He Who Remains. To explain his character fully would be very confusing – Loki was quite confusing – but essentially He Who Remains is a man who exists in infinite variants in infinite universes. He and all his variants – some good, some evil – long ago discovered the existence of other universes, and some of them started a multiverse war. He Who Remains is the variant who effectively keeps things in line, ensuring that all those universes don’t cross over too much and cause cataclysmic chaos.
Unfortunately – spoiler – he’s killed at the end of Loki, leaving all of the universes free to muddle together. That means that in Marvel movies for the foreseeable future anything could happen: alternative versions of known characters can show up, while the dead can effectively be resurrected from another universe. Heard the rumour that ex-Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield could be in the next Spider-Man? That’s the kind of thing the multiverse can do. And that’s all down to Majors’ character – or rather, characters. Look, we said it was confusing.
Jonathan Majors loki
mysterychick · Nov 1, 2021 at 10:10 PM
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Jonathan Majors as He Who Remains in ‘Loki’ (Picture: Marvel Studios / Press)
Majors will also appear in 2023’s Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania in which he’ll play Kang The Conqueror, a variant. Kang is a time-hopping megalomaniac who can exist as multiple entities at once, and has the ultimate aim of ruling over all of time – and he’s so powerful he could do it. Talking about the role is the first time Majors seems careful about what he’s saying. His participation in Creed 3 hasn’t even been officially announced when we meet, but he’s happy to discuss it. Kang? Not so much. “I can only say that we start with He Who Remains and we move to Kang,” he says, suddenly very serious. “The variant conversation is very interesting for an actor, on how to play [it] and what does [the variant] know? They aren’t the same guy – it’s a variant of the human being we met in Loki.”
He won’t confirm or deny, but it’s rumoured that Kang, or variants thereof, could be part of many of the films in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He may be this phase’s equivalent of Thanos, which could keep him in superhero movies for a decade. Majors says he has “no idea” what’s happening elsewhere in the MCU currently. He compares joining the MCU to being in drama school, where you might be chosen to work across multiple projects depending on the desires of “the board… the group of people who are sitting up there looking at the world”. He explains: “You’re part of a huge ensemble: ‘We’re going to take this character, this character and this character and put them in this.’” He doesn’t know what he’ll be required for, but he’s up for the journey. “It can be quite freeing or maddening, depending on how you look at it. If you want control you’re not going to get it,” he laughs. “You’re signing up for a ride. And I’m on it. And that’s all right.”
No matter how many Marvel films he’s set for, there’s no question that you’re going to be seeing an awful lot of Jonathan Majors over the coming years. It seems he’s barely scratched the surface of what he can do as an actor and a movie star. Who the hell is Jonathan Majors? In the very near future, that’s going to sound like a really stupid question.
The Harder They Fall will be available on Netflix on November 3, and is in select UK cinemas now
All of this has happened in the last two years: when much of the global population was in lockdown, Majors was climbing his way onto the A-list two steps at a time. And he did it at such a speed that most of the world hasn’t even had time to learn his name, or even memorise his face. So, who the hell is Jonathan Majors?
Jonathan Majors in 'The Harder They Fall'
Da 5 Bloods, which put him toe-to-toe with actors, including Delroy Lindo and Clarke Peters, who have been acting for longer than he’s been alive. Then he was the lead role in FX’s popular but surprisingly short-lived series Lovecraft Country, in which he played a young man searching for his father in a part of America infested with supernatural creatures. The two projects were baptisms of fire, and Majors came through without a single scorch mark.
“Lovecraft Country, I was the lead and the new guy,” he says. “All these other people had done hundreds of things. I’d never even been on TV! I was to lead the show. So that experience, along with working with all veterans in Da 5 Bloods, allowed me not to lose my mind and be able to play on that level.”
Lovecraft Country
The Harder They Fall
mysterychick · Nov 1, 2021 at 10:10 PM
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If 2020 and 2021 have been big for Majors, they are probably just the warm-up. He already has huge projects set for 2022 and 2023. As soon as he leaves London, Majors begins a six-week fight camp to prepare to play second-lead in Creed 3. The latest in the hugely successful Rocky spin-off franchise will see its star, Michael B. Jordan, make his directing debut. Jordan and Majors have already spoken at length about taking the film in a new direction. Previous films have seen Creed fighting enemies in the ring, but Majors says this one is different as he is not simply playing a villain. “Michael is really trying to do something different with this Creed,” he says. “Something that’s a bit more intimate. With intimacy comes complexity. It’s he and I. It’s a story about these two men trying to work something out, and it’s very different from the others.”
The biggest project of his career so far, however, comes in February 2023 – and it’s so big that he’s already been filming it for most of this year and won’t finish until 2022. If you watched the Disney+ series Loki you’ll remember Majors from the final episode, in which he was revealed as He Who Remains. To explain his character fully would be very confusing – Loki was quite confusing – but essentially He Who Remains is a man who exists in infinite variants in infinite universes. He and all his variants – some good, some evil – long ago discovered the existence of other universes, and some of them started a multiverse war. He Who Remains is the variant who effectively keeps things in line, ensuring that all those universes don’t cross over too much and cause cataclysmic chaos.
Unfortunately – spoiler – he’s killed at the end of Loki, leaving all of the universes free to muddle together. That means that in Marvel movies for the foreseeable future anything could happen: alternative versions of known characters can show up, while the dead can effectively be resurrected from another universe. Heard the rumour that ex-Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield could be in the next Spider-Man? That’s the kind of thing the multiverse can do. And that’s all down to Majors’ character – or rather, characters. Look, we said it was confusing.
Jonathan Majors loki
mysterychick · Nov 1, 2021 at 10:10 PM
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Majors will also appear in 2023’s Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania in which he’ll play Kang The Conqueror, a variant. Kang is a time-hopping megalomaniac who can exist as multiple entities at once, and has the ultimate aim of ruling over all of time – and he’s so powerful he could do it. Talking about the role is the first time Majors seems careful about what he’s saying. His participation in Creed 3 hasn’t even been officially announced when we meet, but he’s happy to discuss it. Kang? Not so much. “I can only say that we start with He Who Remains and we move to Kang,” he says, suddenly very serious. “The variant conversation is very interesting for an actor, on how to play [it] and what does [the variant] know? They aren’t the same guy – it’s a variant of the human being we met in Loki.”
He won’t confirm or deny, but it’s rumoured that Kang, or variants thereof, could be part of many of the films in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He may be this phase’s equivalent of Thanos, which could keep him in superhero movies for a decade. Majors says he has “no idea” what’s happening elsewhere in the MCU currently. He compares joining the MCU to being in drama school, where you might be chosen to work across multiple projects depending on the desires of “the board… the group of people who are sitting up there looking at the world”. He explains: “You’re part of a huge ensemble: ‘We’re going to take this character, this character and this character and put them in this.’” He doesn’t know what he’ll be required for, but he’s up for the journey. “It can be quite freeing or maddening, depending on how you look at it. If you want control you’re not going to get it,” he laughs. “You’re signing up for a ride. And I’m on it. And that’s all right.”
No matter how many Marvel films he’s set for, there’s no question that you’re going to be seeing an awful lot of Jonathan Majors over the coming years. It seems he’s barely scratched the surface of what he can do as an actor and a movie star. Who the hell is Jonathan Majors? In the very near future, that’s going to sound like a really stupid question.
The Harder They Fall will be available on Netflix on November 3, and is in select UK cinemas now
