If you hadn’t already discovered Jonathan Majors in works like HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” the season finale of “Loki,” or acclaimed films like “Da 5 Bloods,” “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” or “The Harder They Fall,” then you best brace yourself.
Shortly Majors is set to be everywhere with four films he has been involved in set to roll out over the next few months – the period Navy pilot drama “Devotion,” as the antagonist of “Creed III,” the lead role in the bodybuilder drama “Magazine Dreams,” and as the big Marvel villain Kang the Conqueror in “Ant-Man and the Wasp in Quantum-mania”.
Variety caught up with the actor over the weekend at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala and shared his excitement about the Marvel role which he first played a variant of in “Loki” and will reveal his true ‘Kang’ form in the new “Ant-Man”:
Every time they call and say, ‘Hey, we need you for this,’ it’s another miracle. Every time there’s an event about it or something breaks about it, I go, ‘Yeah this is real’.
Majors has already seen some footage from the film, and he “couldn’t quite believe” it was himself on screen for good reason:
“Because he looks different than I do. He is a different man than I am. He used all my material, but he’s a different cat. When I first heard the trailer, I didn’t recognize the voice, and he was narrating the whole thing. I was like, ‘What is that?’ I was like, ‘Oh, that’s a great line. That’s a bar; that is a bar.’ And then they showed who it is and I was like, ‘Oh, oh, oh, okay, cool.'”
He also confirmed that he and “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” director Destin Daniel Cretton have already begun having conversations about the story arc that will lead to that film in 2025:
“Well, we just had a few chats. We spoke for a very long time. He’s an open mind. He’s an open heart. He and the work that he does is grounded and that’s the most important part about it.
We’re dealing with myths: what is a ‘Kang’? What is a movie? You know, what is an MCU movie? What does that mean? What’s that look like?
Those are the questions we are asking, but all of that works when it’s grounded and really, really really, tucked into the given circumstances of what’s going on between these people and what we can illuminate for ourselves as a species”
Next up for the actor is starring opposite Willem Dafoe in “The Man in My Basement” based on Walter Mosley’s bestselling novel. He’s also been linked to play Dennis Rodman in “48 Hours in Vegas” at Lionsgate.
