“I venture to clean my plate and take care of my part.”
Jonathan Majorsisn’t losing sleep over the poor reviews ofAnt-Man 3.
“I’m a performance within a story,” Majors said onIndieWire’sScreen Talkpodcast Friday.
Jonathan Majors as Kang in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’.Marvel Studios
I take a stab at clean my plate and take care of my part.
The response is: ‘You’re straight.
They like you.’
Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’.Jay Maidment/Marvel Studios
And they tell me about the movie.
Sometimes the movie is also on that level, and sometimes [it’s not]."
He added of film critics, “It’s just people.
They have an opinion.
You always have an opinion.
I’m no fool.
I know these are people writing it.
These aren’t my Yale professors or my drama teachers.
But what does that 47 mean when you also got this amount of box office?
What do these things mean?
I am in the know.
I won’t play myself.
If you are a critic on a level, I probably know you and understand your politics.”
He noted how much filmmakers and actors often give themselves to projects that may pan.
“I invested in these things.
That’s the other part, you know,” Majors said.
Screenwriter Jeff Loveness recently toldTheDailyBeastthat the negative reviews took him by surprise.
“I was in a pretty low spot,” he said.
“Those were not good reviews, and I was like, ‘What the …?’
I’m really proud of what I wrote for Jonathan and Michelle Pfeiffer.
I thought that was good stuff, you know?
And so I was just despondent, and I was really sad about it.”
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniais in theaters now.
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